CaseLight1997

Attleboro, MA, USA

A small globe of white light hovering over the grass paced my car for several minutes.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-19
Where
Attleboro, MA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.945, -71.286 · exact
Slug
light-over-attleboro-ma-1997-aaa457
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Attleboro, MA shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from Massachusetts in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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