CaseSphere1989

North Reading, MA, USA

Huge Orb soft warm orange 50 ft high 100 feet wide hovering over home

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-15
Where
North Reading, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.575, -71.079 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-reading-ma-1989-e8a488
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from North Reading, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 3 sightings in 1989.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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