UFOMYST
CaseSphere1978

Natick, MA, USA

GIANT UFO - Natick, MA ...Route 9 behind CAR WASH****MORE FOLLOW-UP INFO****April 1978

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1978-04-04
Where
Natick, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.283, -71.350 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-natick-ma-1978-4d83e3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Natick, MA in April 1978 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Natick, MA has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 17 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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