Westford, MA, USA
It appeared to be a satellite until it descended over us at a low altitude and just hovered at 500ft until it ascended and continued on
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-15
- Where
- Westford, MA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 42.579, -71.438 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-westford-ma-1967-bfad88
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
- Westford, MA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Massachusetts in 1967.
Report
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