CaseLight1968
Otis Air Force Base, MA, USA
Witnesses reported a bright light over Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts in July 1968; F-4 fighter jets were reportedly scrambled in response, with the sighting lasting more than an hour.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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- Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-04
- Where
- Otis Air Force Base, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- over 1 hour
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-otis-air-force-base-ma-1968-009b8f
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In context
- Otis Air Force Base, MA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Massachusetts in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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