South Royalton, VT, USA
As reported to MUFONCT: While driving south on rt 89 near South Royalton, VT I spotted huge dark, metallic gray with sectioned plated
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-04-16
- Where
- South Royalton, VT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 60 sec.
- Geo
- 43.821, -72.521 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-south-royalton-vt-1977-ed2a88
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In context
- South Royalton, VT has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 3 reports from Vermont.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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