UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Chelmsford, MA, USA

1 mother ship with her smaller ones

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-09-28
Where
Chelmsford, MA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 min
Geo
42.600, -71.367 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chelmsford-ma-1978-1cde0a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Chelmsford, MA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 17 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.