Gardner, MA, USA
At the time I was six years old. It was light outside and I looked out our bay window and almost at eye level, I noticed what at first
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-05-05
- Where
- Gardner, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3/4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.575, -71.998 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gardner-ma-1978-2af0db
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Gardner, MA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Massachusetts in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.