UFOMYST
CaseLight1977

Boston, MA, USA

two very bright lights shone through the rear window of a parked car, rose up and went into the sky.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-11-17
Where
Boston, MA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.358, -71.060 · exact
Slug
light-over-boston-ma-1977-0a2e9a
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 104 documented reports from Boston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 6 sightings in 1977.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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