CaseSphere1953

Cambridge, MA, USA

Two red-orange lights skirted Boston rooftops in opposite directions, then went over my dormitory in tandem.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1953-04-01
Where
Cambridge, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.375, -71.106 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-cambridge-ma-1953-0c12a9

In context

  • Cambridge, MA shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from Massachusetts in 1953.
  • In the 1950s, 5.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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