NUFORC Sighting 160883

Occurred: 1957-08-10 00:00 Local
Reported: 2020-11-30 08:51 Pacific
Duration: 2 MINUTES

Location: LUDLOW, MA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

A large black silhouette tapered on both ends with a bluish white light flashing intermittently on one end.

I was 9 years old and loved astronomy so I would sneak out of bed late at night to look out of my bedroom window. In the distance was a hill then beyond that a valley with a river and then the town of Indian Orchard. The lights from that town showed a silhouette of a very large (a couple of hundred feet?)black cigar shaped object slowly traveling from left to righ with a light at the right end that flashed blue and white now and then. It stopped then slowly went down behind the hill but I never saw it again. I read in the paper that the Ludlow police also saw the same object and would love to find that report to verify my memory of the exact dates involved.

Posted 2020-12-23