CaseDisk1968
Springfield, MA, USA
A witness in Springfield, Massachusetts reported an unexpected sighting of a disk-shaped object fully illuminated by bright, circling lights in October 1968, lasting about five minutes.
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 (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-25
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-springfield-ma-1968-91b56b
In context
- This is one of 47 reports logged in Springfield, MA.
- This case is one of 9 Massachusetts reports filed in 1968.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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