CaseOval1956
Gloucester, MA, USA
A witness in Gloucester, Massachusetts reported seven motionless, bright lights arranged in an uneven row in the sky, observed for about 45 minutes in June 1956.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-01
- Where
- Gloucester, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 42.614, -70.663 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gloucester-ma-1956-c88e58
In context
- Gloucester, MA has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1956 brought 2 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 1950s skewed 6.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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