CaseOval1959
Fitchburg, MA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, reported a huge, oval-shaped object with many attached lights moving slowly and silently at night for 30 to 50 seconds.
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (167 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-10-01
- Where
- Fitchburg, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30-50 seconds
- Geo
- 42.583, -71.802 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-fitchburg-ma-1959-2cfaac
In context
- Fitchburg, MA shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Massachusetts in 1959.
- In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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