UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Amherst (Canada), NS, Canada

Grounded pyramid formation of 3 objects alternating in colour and making a grinding noise holding a slow steady course.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Amherst (Canada), NS, Canada
Shape
Other
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
45.833, -64.199 · exact
Slug
other-over-amherst-canada-ns-1978-8cba38
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Amherst (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 15 sightings in 1978.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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