Medford, MA, USA
A witness at the Medford drive-in theater in Massachusetts reported a slow-moving, oval-shaped object in front of the screen, in a sighting lasting about five minutes in the mid-1960s.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-15
- Where
- Medford, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.418, -71.106 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-medford-ma-1965-36544e
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Medford, MA shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Massachusetts in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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