CaseFireball1976
Taunton, MA, USA
Large orange/yellow sphere w/pulsating energy imploded , disappeared then seemed to exploded returning to preious shape but larger.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-11-15
- Where
- Taunton, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- approx. 15 mins
- Geo
- 41.900, -71.090 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-taunton-ma-1976-1128c8
In context
- One of 21 documented reports from Taunton, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 10 sightings in 1976.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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