UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

New Bedford, MA, USA

Fireball possible abductee tests done? took me 27 years to come to terms!!

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
New Bedford, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
not sure
Geo
41.635, -70.927 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-bedford-ma-1978-b601c9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 29 reports logged in New Bedford, MA.
  • This case is one of 17 Massachusetts reports filed in 1978.
  • Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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