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Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 18 UFO sighting reports in Woburn, Massachusetts to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 16.67% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 22.22% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 22.22% of total).
- 2003 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 16.67% of total).
- 08/13/13 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 5.56% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (7 reports, 38.89% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Woburn, Massachusetts
These Woburn, Massachusetts UFO reports are 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).
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My sister's boyfriend and I were on a porch and spotted 5-6 lights in a line formation traveling at the same speed and equidistant from one another . All were pretty close to each other, some momentarily disappeared and reappeared . It was daytime and very clear skies.
The lights were very visible. After searching online that night I thought maybe Star link satellites, but they weren't scheduled to be in that area. And would they even be visible during the day?.
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Fast moving bright red light with flashing white and green lights on top stopped, and hovered several times before rapidly leaving the At approximately 9:30 PM, in Woburn, MA, on 7/16/17, while sitting in our yard having a cigarette, my wife and I observed a very bright red light, with white and green flashing lights on top, coming across the sky from the direction of Winchester, MA, at approximately the height one might expect from a helicopter, but at an extremely high rate of speed. I remarked to her "Wow, that's really moving", when it suddenly stopped and hovered for about 10 seconds, before proceeding to speed in the direction of Wilmington, MA, where it again stopped and hovered for a few seconds, before proceeding to return back in the direction I was standing. My wife had gone in the house and alerted my son, who also observed the object move, stop, and hover again, before proceeding rapidly in the direction of Stoneham, MA, and out of sight.
At no time was there any sound noted. The only thing it could have been was a drone, but the height and especially the extreme speed, makes that very unlikely in my opinion.
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Bright light over tree with very loud electrical hum. I went out for a CIG like 245 am heard wicked loud electrical hum wondering what it was looked around saw real bright light behind tree thought was moon til it was moving so slow.
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My husband and I were driving home when we saw a really bright LED light in the sky. At first I thought it might be an airplane but when we drove more down the road you could see the LED light was beaming down through some haze. When I looked up the UFO was in the shape of a line and it had 3 lights coming from it in total, as we drove more down the road I noticed it also had a blinking red light.
We could not tell what color the UFO was.
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Two triangle shaped crafts one with red & green lights the other white/violet lights We seen two UFOs like 12 times at least and they was circling and one was slow and stopped allot and the other was fast more erratic and both Low to the ground. Triangle shaped one had green and red lights the other flashing white/violet lights a lot of light both all around sides and bottoms of craft. We drive around trying to follow them they would disappear and then all the sudden there they were again.
Was as if they saw us seeing them the green and red lit one would stop frequently then bolt when noticed only to come to a sudden slow down. The white lit one was always moving and sometimes moderate speed to very fast speeds with both aircrafts having jarring movements.
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2 black flying objects that moved quick and than dissappered On Monday October 22, 2012 my friend and I were standing outside of our work around 6:15 pm. I just so happen to look up in the sky and what I thought was 2 balloons floating up into the sky, were not balloons. I realized that they were not balloons when they started to move in my direction.
My friend and I were like what the heck is that? The 2 things were moving at a good rate of speed towards us. They started to go over our building and we started to walk backwards to see if we could still see them. The one on the left started to fade in and out.
It went from black in color to not being able to see it. Both of these things were flying parallel with each other the whole time, they would dip down and rise together. As we started to walk backwards and to the side of the building to see them better they were gone.
I have a small picture of what it looks like on my phone. In the picture I only got on and it’s really small but in person they were not that small!. I need to zoom in on the phone to see it better.
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Bright, hazy clyindrical object appearing and disappearing in Boston area I was sitting outside shortly after midnight, August 19 (the night of the 18th), 2006, when a light in the sky caught my attention. The object was large; it was probably almost about a half an inch long from my perspective, which would seemingly be a huge "craft" or object considering it appeared very high up in our atmosphere. The object radiated as a blue-white light, and although it appeared as somewhat of a haze (I couldn't make out any specific edges or details of the object), it took the shape of a cylinder, with its height being about one-third its length.
When I first saw the object it was moving slowly; however, at the altitude it appeared to be flying at its rate would be quite fast. The object then sped up as it made its way across the sky, at a rate that was much faster than any airplane I've seen at a comparable altitude. After about five seconds or so, the object made one last acceleration that had to have at least tripled its speed, and disappeared as it moved upward and seemed to leave the atmosphere.
The last acceleration of speed before its disappearance is what has stuck with me—it seemed straight out of a science fiction movie. Nothing that I’m aware of could move that fast. I’m a sane person, with no prior UFO sightings or unexplainable phenomena in my past.
I spent most of my time in the 24 hours after the incident trying to convince myself of some rational explanation, and I’ve realized that no known human craft or atmospheric event could have accounted for what I saw. I want to know what it was, and if anyone else saw it! Some other details concerning the event: 1) It was a clear night; more stars than are generally visible in my area were visible on this night. I took this into consideration while trying to determine the object’s altitude.
The fact that it was an illuminated object with no real shape other than a hazy cylinder caused me to believe that it was very high up in our atmosphere. 2) The object made no sound. 3) Regretfully, I was alone at the time.
I was outside for no more than two minutes when I saw the object; my girlfriend and three of my friends were inside the house at the time. My only regret in this experience is that no one was there with me to experience and validate what I saw.
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It appeared like a satelite moving across the sky, stopped, did a "S" then streak off at 90 degrees. I took my dog outside as usual for the night. As I was sitting on my back deck waiting, I saw a shooting star out of the corner of my eyes.
The sky was extremly clear and I could see more stars than usual. As I watched the sky, I noticed what appeared to be a satelite moving North to South. It did not dawn on me at the time that satelites do not normally move North to South.
I watched it move across the sky and was following its path. When it reached 12:00, or directly over head, it stopped. I was floored.
I have seen many satelites travel across the sky, so I knew this was not normal. It stayed motion less for about 5 seconds, then it move in the same direction quickly in a "S" pattern and stopped at approximately 11:00 O clock. Again it stayed motion less for approximately 5 seconds, then streak west to east and out of sight in approximately 1 second.
I am a private pilot who has flown many nights and have seen many satelites. This event leaves me with no reasonable idea what this was. It was not a weather balloon, laser, plane, cloud, meteor, or satelite.
I was awake, not tired, no stress, not intoxicated, or under the influence of any medication. It appeared first like a star, when I realized it was moving I thought it was a satelite. It did not grow in size or get brighter.
It stayed constent in appearance and brightness. It defied all logic and Physics. I have read simular stories of this pattern, and have always thought that people eyes were playing tricks, or they wanted to see a UFO so bad that they saw what they wanted.
I was not looking for this event. Am not a UFO buff. But this event has changed my thinking.
I was totaly amazed.
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At approximately, 23:30 hrs several fighter jets where heard in the area, apparently they were tracking an object out of the south west that was originally seen in Westport Ct area about 60 minutes earlier. The object was silent and had long probe like extension and several bright lights all in a white/blue color. Fighter jets where heard in the area for about an hour then all became silent.
No stories appeared in the monring papers and no accounts where broadcasted on any of the news stations. Weather conditions were clear and cold with great visibility from soft cresent shaped moon light.
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Blue/green teardrop over woburn Around 6:12 am I got out of my car to deliver a paper (I'm a paper boy). The skyline on Old Farm Rd, is huge. You can see planes taking off from Logan airport, traffic helicopter's, everything.
Now I was about a mile out from route 93 (where the helicopter's hover near boston, and about 12 miles outside of Boston itself). At that point I noticed a blue/green object stopped behind the treeline in the far distance. I thought nothing of it really (though why I don't know cause the thing was blue/green) cause I just figured it was a plane taking off facing me.
When I came back I looked up and saw two commercial airplanes in the air to the south and strangely enough, a jet leaving a smoke trail directly overhead. Then I noticed the blue green object had started to move in a direction it couldn't possibly have moved. It was huge, looked to be a weird top heavy shape with a round, thinner, bottome.
It was flashing white and red lights. Immediately I started comparing it. It was moving incredibly fast (passing my line of vision over the horizon every 5- 10 seconds).
I started to doubt it was a plane (no plane would ever fly that low) and by now was pretty freaked out because I realized I was the only one seeing this and even contemplated knocking on someone's door to get a confirmation. This thing was viewable from where I was for about 5 minutes (the view on old farm road is massive), and then it fell out of the viewable horizon. I thought it could have been a helicopter, but I don't think helicopter's are A) completely silent, and B) Glowing blue/green.
Interesting note the miltary jet that was high above my head seemed to be on an arching rise and when I saw it the smoke trail was descending. I think it might have been following it.
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4 fire in the sky over the highway Driving up interstate 93 in our work truck. I Looked up and saw what I thought to be a comet or shooting star but niether of these just stay in on place in the sky when one of the fireballs made a slow cresnt turn and then stopped I knew it was niether. They just hoverd there untill we lost sight of them.
After that expieriance and the fact that know one believes me i'm taking a camera to work from now on. Even though i still don't think they would believe me. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate.
PD)).
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Multiple very colorful objects in the middle of a beautiful sunny day at the sky for 10-15 minutes.h We live on top of a hill and were playing basketball when we noticed a group of 12 objects very up in the sky. We, of course, thought they were parasuites and were wondering why they had opened up their parasuites so up in the sky.
They started as a closed group but started to move apart from each others. They moved very slow, pretty much the same way one moves with a rectangular parasuite. We also noticed one object apart from the main group much much lower than the rest of the objects.
We thought that it was one parasuiter that had opened his parasuite much later than the other ones. The objects came in many colors, yellow, green, blue, red etc. like rainbow colors.
We noticed that the top ones started to move UP instead of down. We thought that because of the wind streams, they would be in trouble and end up all the way to New York from Boston. However, the objects started to move up and the just simply *disappeared* from the sky.
We were althogether three people in the beginning of this phenomena and I invited my two daughters from inside to see the objects as well and they saw those too. I am pretty sure that there were A LOT of people in the area that saw the same thing because this happened at noon and the weather was just beatiful, full of sunshine and clear blue skies.
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My wife and I saw a strange object that looked like a diamond in the sky. On Friday night my wife and I were coming home from a movie. We were on Winn St in Woburn MA when my wife pointed out a strange object that appeared to be shaped like a diamond in the sky.
The Light's on each corner appeared to change color several times. My wife and I pulled over to the side of the road to oberve it further where it hovered for several minutes before streaking off into the far horizon out of our sight. From being in the military the object wss like nothing I have ever seen.
I belive this information would be usefull to your site. ((NUFORC Note: The twinkling star, Sirius, is in the northeastern sky at this time of year. That would be the first possibility that we feel should be ruled out.
PD)).
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An object shaped like a 'V' , flew across the face of the moon. I stepped outdoors to look at the moon with binoculars and had just gotten them focused in very sharply, when I saw the object. An object shaped like a 'V' , flew across the face of the moon heading east.
The object was in sharp focus. It was black and there were no running lights. The binoculars are Nikon 7x20 7.
1d Travelite 2 model. It was small relative to the moon. It take about 20 of it's wing spans to match the moon's diameter.
A few seconds after the sighting, I looked all around the sky east of the moon. I could see nothing but stars. There were a few aircraft in the area and were easily recognizable by their lighting.
My first thought was that an F-117 Steath figher was flying over. I wonder if anyone else in the Boston area saw this.?.
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I was in the middle of doing pilates with my wife when we saw something through our window that looked like a trianglular shape. At first I thought it was a plane because it was dark outside and the craft was far away so it really didn't grab my attention. As the craft got closer, there was still no sound.
That is what really surprised me because I don't know of any plane or helicopter that doesn't make any noise. The craft then started going backwards, and I know planes can't do that. When I saw the craft do that I knew that I just had to see it.
So my wife and I went outside to see it and that is when I realized that it wasn't a plane. The craft started glowing and it was definitely a trianglular shape. When the craft stopped glowing it was gone and there was no trace of it.
I'm not sure what it was. I don't think it was a UFO because I don't believe in UFO's.
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circles of lights in the western sky of Woburn MA. on the morning of May 13th and 14th at approximately 0300-0315 while letting the dog out my dad and stepmom on the 13th and my dad again on the 14th about the same time wittnessd a circle of 6 lights.the circle was more like a ring of 6 individule lights.
He said"you could still see the sky through them."it was moving through the western sky,then it would stop and just sit there.They watched the object untill the dog was done outside.
On the 14th at approximately 0325 he witnessed the same object but there were 2 circles of light one was moving in the western sky and the other one was stopped and just sitting there in the sky. He thought they might be planes from Hanscom AFB .It is about 10 miles to the west of us here in woburn.
But there was no wing span visible and the lights were steady ,not flashing like you would see on a plane.
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Man driving on N on I-93 w/ wife & friend witness bizarre obj. w/ 2 red/2white lights. Hovers, then flies over car.
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-Working the night shift,and always watching the stars and shapes and distance of stars, starting like this looking up to the east from Boston Mass to the north west looking at too same size starslike this . going from right to left move across the sky I noticed they were getting further appart . I know knew that lite or star was moving across the heavans I NEVER TOOK MY EYES OFF THE MOVING OBJECT.
now when it stoped moving it did this. You draw a divided sign like in math and now looking from rite to left Boston to North West it stayed their and did not move. Looking at stars this was a long distance.
I do beleave we are being watched from above no dought. ((NUFORC Note: Date of incident may be apprximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD)).
Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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June | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings 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 |
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Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings 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 |
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08/13/13 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
02/16/02 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
11/05/14 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
11/01/02 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
07/25/14 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings 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 |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 7 reported sightings | 38.89% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 5 reported sightings | 27.78% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Woburn, Massachusetts
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2014 | 2 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2006 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2004 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2004 |
2003 | 3 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2003 |
2002 | 3 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 2002 |
1999 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 1999 |
1995 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 1995 |
1988 | 1 UFO Reports | Woburn, Massachusetts UFO Sightings in 1988 |
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