UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Stoughton, MA, USA

It was the day after the Blizzard of 78 in Massachusets

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-03-01
Where
Stoughton, MA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.125, -71.102 · exact
Slug
other-over-stoughton-ma-1978-4193df
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • Stoughton, MA shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Massachusetts in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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.