CaseCircle1966

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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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