CaseDisk1977
Otis (Reservoir), MA, USA
60-80 ft in diameter, disc shaped, flat on top, red and green lights underneath.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-15
- Where
- Otis (Reservoir), MA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 42.193, -73.092 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-otis-reservoir-ma-1977-9485ae
Wave
Part of a wave
Colares & Operação Prato
Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- Otis (Reservoir), MA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Massachusetts in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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