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Massachusetts UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 3 UFO sighting reports in Massachusetts from 1989 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "disk" (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 100.00% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 100.00% of total).
- 06/15/89 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
Massachusetts UFO Sighting Reports in 1989
This is a sampling of 20 Massachusetts UFO reports from 1989, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
bright baloon like ufo with light circulating under it in brockton Mass. in 1989 . I was 7 years old at the time.
My mom, my step dad, my aunt, my uncle, my two sleeping sisters and I were walking home from my uncle's birthday party. I remember my mom saying "ooh look how big the moon is tonight". My uncle said in responce "If that's the moon, then what is that?" everyone froze and stared at the huge object that seemed to look like a big glowing baloon.
It was like a light bulb! and it had colors circling on the bottom. I was so scared that I jumped behind some bushes on the right of the sidewalk. My step dad and my my mom were arguing over what it was.
My step dad said it was just a baloon lighted from the inside, while my mom told him it couldn't be because it had no sign or seemed to advertise anything. I am sending you this because around that time there seemed to be other reports. please tell me if there were any.
I want to confirm if it was really an unidentified craft or some baloon. At the time of the sighting it was over some houses and disappeared a couple of times behind some trees. please let me know if anything comes up.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Huge Orb soft warm orange 50 ft high 100 feet wide hovering over home I was driving home from work passing through Harold Parker state forest into North Reading having passed through the North Andover portion. On my left was a clearing of a handful of homes. I was drawn to look to my left and saw a huge orange sphere that glowed as if a soft warm light.
it was hovering above a ranch home and there were cars in the driveways of that and other homes adjacent. The sphere i estimate to have have been 50 feet high and 100 feet in diameter as it hung over the right and left edges of the home. It was perhaps 6-10 feet above the roof.
i slowed down to 5 mph and rolled the window down. It made no noise and was a steady soft warm glow.As i slowed to watch it it began to move in sync with my vehicle matching the speed.
I estimate my vehicle was 15 to 20 feet from the house on the road. I continued driving and watching until i reached the edge of the clearing to where it became woods again. At that point it continued on just above the tre! etops at about the same 5 mph heading in a 10 O'clock position from my vehicle.
About 20 years later i bumped into a man who lived in the same area and had a friend with the state police. He told me that the state police had been flooded with calls that night unbekown to me.I have a college degree.
Full Report Text:
It was about 100-200 yards away above some houses, it had blue lights circling. It was when I was very young(5 or 6),before I even started school I remember it very well. Me and my sister went a PTO meeting w/my mom.
Me and my sister were outside waiting, I turned around and saw a saucer in the sky. It was probably 100-200 yards away above some houses, it had blue lights circling around it. The saucer looked like it was made from a strange metal, the lights circling the middle of the disk looked like rectangles.
It seemed like the whole ship was spinning.I starred at it until it disapeared eastward behind some houses, when I looked at my sister she was facing in the other direction.To this day no one believes me, but that night is one of the clearest memories I have of my childhood.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Massachusetts UFO Sightings From 1989 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Disk | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
| Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Massachusetts UFO Sightings From 1989 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| June | 3 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Massachusetts UFO Sightings From 1989 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
| Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Massachusetts UFO Sightings From 1989 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
| Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| 06/15/89 | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
| 06/01/89 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Massachusetts UFO Sightings From 1989 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
| Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
| Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
All Massachusetts Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1989
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Massachusetts, in 1989
| City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Brockton | 1 UFO Reports | Brockton UFO Sightings in 1989 |
| Pittsfield | 1 UFO Reports | Pittsfield UFO Sightings in 1989 |
| North Reading | 1 UFO Reports | North Reading UFO Sightings in 1989 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Massachusetts
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Massachusetts.