UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Northampton, MA, USA

Object at first thought to be satellite but made vary sudden, erratic and flight manuveurs.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-27
Where
Northampton, MA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 secs
Geo
42.325, -72.641 · exact
Slug
other-over-northampton-ma-1997-35b99c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • One of 15 documented reports from Northampton, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 18 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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