UFOMYST
CaseSphere1977

Boston, MA, USA

Boston Harbor light show

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (24 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-24
Where
Boston, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10-15 min.
Geo
42.358, -71.060 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-boston-ma-1977-e89dae
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 104 reports logged in Boston, MA.
  • This case is one of 6 Massachusetts reports filed in 1977.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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