CaseCircle1998
Fitchburg, MA, USA
There was an extremely bright white light - in a very cloudy sky. It was skipping about in the sky very fast, couldn't keep track of it
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-28
- Where
- Fitchburg, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.583, -71.802 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fitchburg-ma-1998-26e100
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Fitchburg, MA.
- This case is one of 27 Massachusetts reports filed in 1998.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.