CaseOther1970
Newton Centre, MA, USA
A vertical, trapezoid-shaped object glowing pale yellow was reported gliding across the sky over Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in December 1970, with a swaying motion, for three to five seconds.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (194 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-12-15
- Where
- Newton Centre, MA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- other-over-newton-centre-ma-1970-8eb99f
In context
- Newton Centre, MA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Massachusetts in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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