UFOMYST
CaseOther1966

Springfield, MA, USA

U.F.O. sighting was astronomic in size as to blot out the sky on all horizons.

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 (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-07-15
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 min.
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
other-over-springfield-ma-1966-157134
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • This is one of 47 reports logged in Springfield, MA.
  • This case is one of 5 Massachusetts reports filed in 1966.
  • Other craft made up 6.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.