CaseRectangle1968

Shrewsbury, MA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Shrewsbury, MA, USA
Start: 1968-06-12
Location: Shrewsbury, MA, USA

((HOAX??)) CRAFT WAS SQUARE LIKE A WINNABAGO BLACK NO NOISE DIDNT MOVE FOR OVER 2MIN WAS CLOSE LESS THAN QUARTER OF A MILE

Report quality: Low21/100

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Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (111 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days
Summary contains a HOAX marker

When: 1968-06-12
Where: Shrewsbury, MA, USA
Shape: Rectangle
Duration: 2min
Geo: 42.296, -71.713 · exact
Slug: rectangle-over-shrewsbury-ma-1968-20ad0e

In context

Shrewsbury, MA shows up 11 times across the archive.
9 reports came from Massachusetts in 1968.
In the 1960s, 0.9% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

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