UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Lowell, MA, USA

In summer of 1978 @ age 7,I looked out my third floor window and saw a steadily and slowly moving hot-dog shaped object,red-orange sun-

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-15
Where
Lowell, MA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 min
Geo
42.633, -71.316 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-lowell-ma-1978-14260c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Lowell, MA shows up 36 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Massachusetts in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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