North Adams, MA, USA
Hi This is a sighting my mother had of a UFO, it was on a Monday in 1978 in a small town called North Adams Massachusetts. The time wa
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- North Adams, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1/2 min
- Geo
- 42.701, -73.109 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-north-adams-ma-1978-d7645a
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In context
- North Adams, MA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 17 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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