Rutland, MA, USA
In Rutland, Massachusetts on August 20, 1965, witnesses reported a cigar-shaped object that shifted from bright white to a pulsating red hue over about five minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-20
- Where
- Rutland, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.370, -71.948 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-rutland-ma-1965-b13aa1
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Rutland, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 8 sightings in 1965.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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