Malden, MA, USA
blue-white star, larger than any other in sky-- making regular 90' turns- for over 30 min.'s
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-01
- Where
- Malden, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30+min.
- Geo
- 42.425, -71.066 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-malden-ma-1966-b0daeb
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Malden, MA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Massachusetts in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.