UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Cape Cod, MA, USA

The face in the window was scary as well as amazing!

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Cape Cod, MA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 mins
Geo
41.686, -70.243 · exact
Slug
other-over-cape-cod-ma-1978-51ee87
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Cape Cod, MA.
  • This case is one of 17 Massachusetts reports filed in 1978.
  • Other craft made up 6.5% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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.