Worcester, MA, USA
We observed a 60-80 ft diameter metalic craft (disk shaped- flat on top)move by us at 70 ft high & 100 yards of dista-nce.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-12-28
- Where
- Worcester, MA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 sec
- Geo
- 42.263, -71.802 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-worcester-ma-1977-9fb118
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In context
- This is one of 57 reports logged in Worcester, MA.
- This case is one of 6 Massachusetts reports filed in 1977.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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