CaseSphere1961
Aroostook (Canada), NB, Canada
In 1961, a boy riding a bicycle near Aroostook, New Brunswick, Canada, reported a yellowish-silver sphere larger than the full moon flying over a house at dusk.
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (160 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-06-01
- Where
- Aroostook (Canada), NB, Canada
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 46.801, -67.724 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-aroostook-canada-nb-1961-87dca2
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Aroostook (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
- Canada logged 3 sightings in 1961.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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