CaseCircle1979
Athol, MA, USA
Hovering craft at tree top level, at night. Craft lit up from inside w/4 aliens clearly visible, 3 short, 1 tall, all gray type.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-01
- Where
- Athol, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.596, -72.227 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-athol-ma-1979-6e0cdf
In context
- Athol, MA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Massachusetts in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.