UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

South Hadley, MA, USA

My family and neighbors saw a glowing red sphere hovering in the sky and shot away in incredible speed.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-02
Where
South Hadley, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10~15
Geo
42.258, -72.575 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-south-hadley-ma-1997-c3086a
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • South Hadley, MA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 18 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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