UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Rockland, MA, USA

Military jet pursuit.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (21 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-04-21
Where
Rockland, MA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
42.131, -70.916 · exact
Slug
oval-over-rockland-ma-1973-c54432
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Rockland, MA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 4 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure 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.