CaseFireball1987
Auburn, MA, USA
Fireball went down into the woods. Moments later we heard rustling through the leaves, twigs breaking
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-06-20
- Where
- Auburn, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.195, -71.836 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-auburn-ma-1987-39d838
In context
- Auburn, MA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1987 brought 8 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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