CaseFormation1969
Westport, MA, USA
Six bright lights arranged in a V-shaped formation were reported over Westport, Massachusetts, in August 1969, visible for eight to ten seconds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (144 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-08-15
- Where
- Westport, MA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.626, -71.026 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-westport-ma-1969-fe61e1
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In context
- Westport, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Massachusetts in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 1.8% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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