Westboro/Marlboro, MA, USA
Two friends of mine were driving back from a class last Wednesday when they spotted a strange object over a field. At first they thoug
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-30
- Where
- Westboro/Marlboro, MA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.717, -70.973 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-westboro-marlboro-ma-1997-9f91d3
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Westboro/Marlboro, MA.
- This case is one of 18 Massachusetts reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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