UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1978

Springfield, MA, USA

Summer of '78, Springfield, MA, a display of colors on a screen hovering above us.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-springfield-ma-1978-2d2e06
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    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…

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In context

  • One of 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 17 sightings in 1978.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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