CaseSphere1999
Rochdale, MA, USA
I observed a phosphorescent purple sphere going back and forth over the trees while camping out in the woods.
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: 810s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-04
- Where
- Rochdale, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 12-15 min.
- Geo
- 42.195, -71.906 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rochdale-ma-1999-c30c7a
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Rochdale, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 31 sightings in 1999.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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