New Braintree, MA, USA
Near New Braintree, Massachusetts in April 1966, a witness reported a large red glowing cloud over the woods, followed by at least eleven smaller white circular objects, over about 30 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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (192 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-04-01
- Where
- New Braintree, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~ 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.317, -72.126 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-braintree-ma-1966-3e436a
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
- New Braintree, MA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Massachusetts in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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