CaseOval1971
East Boston, MA, USA
Three oval-shaped objects were reported hovering over a street hockey game in East Boston, Massachusetts, in June 1971, watched by the players for about a minute.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-30
- Where
- East Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.375, -71.039 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-east-boston-ma-1971-b87e32
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from East Boston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 6 sightings in 1971.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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