CaseOval1999
Newburyport, MA, USA
Bright oval-shaped light, approx. 30 degrees above horizon in N.E. portion of sky. Moved slowly from left to right. Observed for approx
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-13
- Where
- Newburyport, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 42.813, -70.877 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-newburyport-ma-1999-1ef678
In context
- Newburyport, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 31 reports came from Massachusetts in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.