Massachusetts/New Hampshire, NH, USA
Huge fireball tracking beside car on passenger side and no other clear memories with trip t aking too long - extreme fear. 500 Ligh
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
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-01-27
- Where
- Massachusetts/New Hampshire, NH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.556, -83.953 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-massachusetts-new-hampshire-nh-1978-be0efc
Part of a wave
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In context
- Massachusetts/New Hampshire, NH shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from New Hampshire in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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