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Beverly, Massachusetts sighting over a high school

Name: Beverly, Massachusetts sighting over a high school
Start: 1966-04-22
Location: Beverly, MA

When: 22 Apr 1966
Where: Beverly, MA
Sources: 2 public sources

Beverly High School; the 1966 sighting centered on the school's field John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Several residents and two police officers in Beverly, Massachusetts reported lights and a disc-like object over the high school field, one passing low over a witness. The Condon Report (Case 6) attributed most of the long observation to Jupiter but left the close encounter unexplained.

Sources

OfficialScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Case 6: UFO Sighting Over a School (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (Condon Report), copy hosted by NCAS / 1969
OtherBeverly, Massachusetts, April 22, 1966 (opens in a new tab)ufology.patrickgross.org

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