Casecylinder1997

Quincy, MA, USA

I WAS RIDING IN THE CAR WITH MY MOM WHEN A STRANGE MISSILE SHAPED OBJECT FLY OVER THE ROAD AT LOW ALTITUDE

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-07
Where
Quincy, MA, USA
Shape
cylinder
Duration
5 sec.
Geo
42.253, -71.002 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-quincy-ma-1997-bb9256
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Quincy, MA.
  • This case is one of 18 Massachusetts reports filed in 1997.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.4% of 1990s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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