Natick, MA, USA
GIANT UFO - Natick, MA on Route 9 behind CAR WASH - either 1977 or 1978.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-04-04
- Where
- Natick, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 42.283, -71.350 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-natick-ma-1978-373268
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Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Natick, MA reports filed in April 1978.
In context
- Natick, MA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Massachusetts in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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