MASSACHUSETTS

ASHBY
4/24/66
(Magonia)
CE-I. Two men saw an object dive within 30 meters of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic.

BELLINGHAM
4/19/66
(Magonia)
CE-I. Two women saw a cigar-shaped object about 20 meters long with bright red lights at both ends, flying erratically. It made a whistling sound when moving, but was silent when hovering. The lights began flashing and the object went down behind some trees when five planes and a helicopter came over the area. Two of the aircraft circled the location, then flew on. The whistling sound was heard again, but the object was not seen again.

BEVERLY
7/16/52 (Bluebook)
CE-I. 9:35 a.m. Witness: U.S. Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert. Four roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through window of photo lab.

BEVERLY
4/22/66
(Magonia)
CE-I. A child became upset by a UFO near a school. When three adults came outside to calm the child, they also saw the object circling and hovering. They called the police. Two police officers arrived and saw the object appear to "dance" with two other objects. All witnesses then observed the arrival of one helicopter and two aircraft, as the remaining object flew away to the southwest. Police described the object as plate-shaped when stationary above the school building. TV reception was blurred throughoput the observation.

BOSTON
7/22/52
(Bluebook)
CE-I. Between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts. 10:47 p.m. Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. One round blue light passed F-94, spinning.

BOSTON
6/1/54
(McDonald)
CE-I. At 0930 EDST, a Paris-New York TWA Constellation was passing near Boston when the cockpit crew spotted "a large, white-colored disc-like object" overhead (Ref. 41). Capt. Charles J. Kratovil, copilot W. R. Davis, and flight engineer Harold Raney all watched it for a total time of 10 minutes as they flew on their own southwestward course to New York. They would occasionally lose it behind overlying clouds. Knowing that they were flying into headwinds, they concluded that it could not be any kind of balloon, so they radioed the Boston airport control tower, which informed him that jets were scrambled and saw the object, but could not close with it.

After landing in New York, Capt. Kratovil was informed that official spokesmen had attributed the sighting to a "weather balloon" released from Grenier AFB, in New Hampshire. However, the fact that the object was moving against the wind makes this doubtful.

BOSTON
July 13, 2001
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BOSTON
August 21, 2002
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BROCKTON
9/16/99
UFO Roundup Vol 4 #24

BROOKFIELD
10/22/99
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 4 #27

CAMBRIDGE
5/26/64
(Bluebook)
CE-I. 7:43 p.m. Witness: P. Wankowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian satellite tracker. One thin, white ellipsoid (3.5 times as long as wide) flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds.

CAPE COD
6/17/52
(Bluebook)
CE-I. 1:28 a.m. Witness: pilot of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A light like a bright star crossed the nose of the airplane while being observed for 15 seconds. No further information in the files.

CAPE COD
1968 - 1969
CE-I. Light in sky. Personal report to Loy. See
Reader's Sightings, page 5

CAPE COD
August 10, 2001
See Filer's Files #35

CRANE'S BEACH
9/17/66
(Magonia)
CE-I. A man and his wife saw a golden-white, luminous object resting on a beach, with two bright lights flying in and out of the craft. It went away after one hour.

DANVERS
6/24/54
(Bluebook)
12:45 p.m. Witness: R.B. Tomer, director of commercial engineering for CBS-Hytron. One white, elliptical-shaped object covered 45^ of sky in 30 seconds.

DORCHESTER
8/27/54
(Bluebook)
1 p.m. Witness: E.A. Srazdes. Seven large, white, teardrop-shaped objects turned blue. Flew in line formation and increased speed during the 2 minute sighting.

DORCHESTER
4/12/66
(Magonia)
During a power failure, many residents saw an oval object with a dome on top and lights(red to white to green) around the bottom, which appeared to land on the roof of the Oliver Wendell Holmes grammar school after a series of maneuvers.

EAST FALMOUTH
4/7/99
Vol 4 #15

FITCHBURG
12/23/09
UFO Roundup Vol 2 #48

GREENFIELD
2/20/52
(NICAP)
A Congregational Minister saw three very bright silver objects, apparently spherical, traveling in a perfect V.

HANOVER
July 11, 2001
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LEOMINSTER
12/22/09
UFO Roundup Vol 3 #48

LEOMINSTER
3/8/67
(Magonia)
Two people observed deep fog in the vicinity of a cemetary and saw a light in the center, coming from an object hovering 100 meters above the ground. Thinking it was a fire, the witnesses stopped. Paralysis and ignition interference were then noted while the object, about 13 meters in diameter, oscillated and then departed with a whirring sound. It took about 20 minutes for the witnesses to regain muscular coordination.

LEOMINSTER
6/1/96
(RDUP6/9/96)
At about 1 a.m., a UFO with prominent blue lights appeared over Leominster,and moved east over Lunenburg, Townsend and Groton. It encountered the witness's car near the intersection of Route 3 and Interstate Highway 495 just south of Lowell.
According to the witness, "I was on Route 3 near Lowell and had just pulled onto 495 heading south. It was around 1 a.m. I was alone in the car and (on) the highway. I had just passed Exit 30 (the Ayer/ Leominster turnoff). Then the lights hit me from behind. Blue lights. Very round, very close to the ground. At first I thought it was a state trooper, but then the lights were gone. They reappeared just ahead of my car, heading south, as well," he added. "They were much higher in the sky this time and flashed forward suddenly. Then they stopped. A quick zigzagging of 90 degrees to the left (eastward) and they were gone. Faster than anything I have ever seen."

LONGMEADOW
4/17/52
(Bluebook)
8:30 p.m. Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer J.A. Eaton. One round, deep orange object flew fast and erratic, occasionally emitting a shaft of light to the rear during a 40 minute sighting.

LONGMEADOW
3/17/96
(RDUP3/25/96)
A weird-looking UFO flew over Longmeadow, at 4:44 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, 1996. It was seen by two teenagers who happened to be looking through a skylight at that particular moment. According to the two witnesses, the front of the UFO "was in the shape of an egg" while the rear was "rounded." One youth estimated that the UFO was 80 feet long. The strange object also had two protrusions on either side that looked like stubby wings. The UFO "passed right over the skylight," one witness said. "The (UFO's) big lights looked like the lights on a Mercedes but BIGGER!" They found the large lights blinding but added that the smaller lights didn't bother their eyes.

LYNN
8/25/64
(Magonia)
A man heard a whistling noise and saw a silvery, oval object surrounded with a soft white glow, supporting a dome, wgich went down to ground level.

MIDDLEBORO
12/10/98
UFO Roundup Vol 4 #1

MILTON
4/24/52
(Bluebook)
2:30 p.m. Witnesses: three Cambridge Research Center electronics engineers, one named Buruish. Two flat, red squares flew wobbly in level flight, climbed, levelled out during 1.5 minute observation.

NEWBURYPORT
2/26/54
(Bluebook)
2:30 p.m. Witnesses: architect R.M. Pierce, marine engineer George Avery and one other person. One silver disc, with a white trail, made a loud roar for 30-60 seconds.

NORTH CANAAN
February 9, 2002
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OTIS AFB
10/10/52
(Bluebook)
6:30 p.m. Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt., two other enlisted men. One blinking white light moved like a pendulum for 20 minutes, and then shot straight up.

OTIS AIR FORCE BASE
September 11, 2001
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PEABODY
4/19/66
(Magonia)
A man saw what he thought was a crashing plane, then observed that it was oval-shaped and had white, red, and green lights. It flew low over him, circled, came down with a pendulum motion, and appeared to land on Route 114. Later that night, at midnight, two other men driving that same route saw a beam of light sweep the road. They stopped, and saw a diisk-shaped object in a filed, with a white, green, and three red lights.

PETERSHAM
4/27/96
(RDUP5/26/96)
At approximately 6 p.m., a man standing on the eastern shore of the Quabbin Reservoir, just west of Petersham, Massachusetts, spotted three UFOs in the sky over the huge man-made lake.
"I saw them moving in a circular, sweeping sort of motion," the man said. "They made no noise and produced only a brightening light that seemed to silhouette them against the sky." At first "the UFOs appeared as lines in the sky," he added, "but by their appearance I judged them to be flat or concave in shape. The area (of flight) was west of my position looking over the Quabbin. The objects were moving at what I would say was 30 miles per hour in a north-south rotation, switching directions in the air. I watched them for about five minutes until the objects zipped over the(Berkshire) hills to the west."

PROVINCETOWN
9/21/50
(Bluebook)
9:52 a.m. Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22 miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1 minute observation.

REVERE
September 11, 2001
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ROCKLAND
12/31/97
UFO Roundup Vol 3 #2

SANDWICH
January 21, 2003
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SOUTHWICK
January 16, 2002
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SUDBURY
10/22/73
(Unexplained Mysteries)
Sparkling, sticky "angel hair" drifted from the sky, and a witness saw a shiny UFO moving off.

TEATICKET
2/5/50
(Bluebook)
5:10 p.m. Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin, illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered together and then disappeared high and fast after 5 minutes.

WATERTOWN
A/23/52
(NICAP)
An engineer saw a UFO maneuvering at high speed.

WILMINGTON
October 3, 2001
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WOBURN
March 28, 2002
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WORCESTER
12/22/09
(NICAP)
A mysterious "airship" emitting a bright beam of light appeared moving SE to NW, hovered over the city, moved away. Seen again two hours later; hovered, moved away to south and then turned east. Observed over Boston and Lynn, MA next night. (N.Y. Tribune, 12/03/09 N.Y. Sun, 12/24/09)

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