TAUNTON
7/15/1966
I don't know what made me look up that night at 7pm, but when I did I was shocking and it took my breath away. It was a long oblong flat shape very huge. It took 1 min. to pass overhead it was huge and didn't make one sound. It had different colored lights on its underside. It took more than one min. to pass overhead and it was close or so it seemed. Its been 43 years since Ive seen it and I will never forget it.
I don't know what made me look up that night at 7pm, but when I did I was shocking and it took my breath away. It was a long oblong flat shape very huge. It took 1 min. to pass overhead it was huge and didn't make one sound. It had different colored lights on its underside. It took more than one min. to pass overhead and it was close or so it seemed. Its been 43 years since Ive seen it and I will never forget it.
12/19/76
A couple was driving West along Rte. 44 in Taunton when they saw two large objects near treetop level. One of the objects appeared to move closer, then dropped below the trees. They stopped the car and watched the other object for 3-4 minutes. It had a rotating section with a white light and red and blue-green lights at either end that flashed at 2-second intervals. It was about the size of a half-dollar held at arm's length. As they watched, it dropped below the tree tops and suddenly disappeared. (Soure N.E. UFO Newsletter #9 Jan.78 p.4 )
A couple was driving West along Rte. 44 in Taunton when they saw two large objects near treetop level. One of the objects appeared to move closer, then dropped below the trees. They stopped the car and watched the other object for 3-4 minutes. It had a rotating section with a white light and red and blue-green lights at either end that flashed at 2-second intervals. It was about the size of a half-dollar held at arm's length. As they watched, it dropped below the tree tops and suddenly disappeared. (Soure N.E. UFO Newsletter #9 Jan.78 p.4 )
7/3/1978
Is there any connection between the five pointed object that seemed to hover over the city tonight and the request by the Conneticut State Police exactly two weeks ago which was sent to area police departments for any information on sightings for any unidentified flying objects? There are no official reports on UFO's from any of the police departments in greater Taunton, nor are there any log reports on sightings at either Logan Airport in Boston or Green Airport in Warwick RI. However, as one control tower employee said, "The crew that's on now wasn't on last night but nothing was relayed to us. We don't have any knowledge of it."
Whatever it was, it was visible to several Tauntonians between 8 and 10pm last night. The first report was from William L. Casey who at the time was a school superintendent in Belmont. He notified neighbors and other friends pleading " Tell me I'm not crazy," as he asked them to verify what he was seeing. After the expected kidding about starting the Holiday early, his neighbors and friends also saw the object, which one man said seemed to be bobbing up and down slightly, and watched as it gradually dipped below the tree line. It could also be seen from the Bennet School where several people gathered to watch the object. One woman said she spotted the object while driving on Danford St. at about 10pm. Considering briefly that it might be a UFO, she dismissed that notion when a tree blocked her vision for a few seconds and she spotted the object at a different point shortly after. "It was too far from the first place I'd seen it," she said "I didn't think anything could move that fast so I decided it must have been two planes." However , about 15 minutes later, the same object was seen moving west by Portmouth, R.I. man who was at home at the time. While it had been in Taunton several observers stated that several airplanes were flying around it. "There seemed to be an unusual number of planes in that area of the skyat the time." one viewer said. Air Force offices were closed for the day and officials were unavailable for comment. (Source Taunton Daily Gazette July 4, 1978)
Is there any connection between the five pointed object that seemed to hover over the city tonight and the request by the Conneticut State Police exactly two weeks ago which was sent to area police departments for any information on sightings for any unidentified flying objects? There are no official reports on UFO's from any of the police departments in greater Taunton, nor are there any log reports on sightings at either Logan Airport in Boston or Green Airport in Warwick RI. However, as one control tower employee said, "The crew that's on now wasn't on last night but nothing was relayed to us. We don't have any knowledge of it."
Whatever it was, it was visible to several Tauntonians between 8 and 10pm last night. The first report was from William L. Casey who at the time was a school superintendent in Belmont. He notified neighbors and other friends pleading " Tell me I'm not crazy," as he asked them to verify what he was seeing. After the expected kidding about starting the Holiday early, his neighbors and friends also saw the object, which one man said seemed to be bobbing up and down slightly, and watched as it gradually dipped below the tree line. It could also be seen from the Bennet School where several people gathered to watch the object. One woman said she spotted the object while driving on Danford St. at about 10pm. Considering briefly that it might be a UFO, she dismissed that notion when a tree blocked her vision for a few seconds and she spotted the object at a different point shortly after. "It was too far from the first place I'd seen it," she said "I didn't think anything could move that fast so I decided it must have been two planes." However , about 15 minutes later, the same object was seen moving west by Portmouth, R.I. man who was at home at the time. While it had been in Taunton several observers stated that several airplanes were flying around it. "There seemed to be an unusual number of planes in that area of the skyat the time." one viewer said. Air Force offices were closed for the day and officials were unavailable for comment. (Source Taunton Daily Gazette July 4, 1978)
8/12/1980
I am listing this report in hopes of confirmation of this experience. It was a warm summer evening in August 1980 around dusk. I was riding my bike home from Morton Hospital where I worked in the dietary department. As I approached Tremont Street, where I lived, I saw a fireball shoot across the sky.As I entered my driveway ,my parents car pulled in first ahead of me. It was odd to see my mom shaking and then she ran into the house. My father, who was sitting on an embankment next to our porch was shaking his head in disbelief. My father and mother told me that they where returning from a day down on the Cape. When they where driving back into Taunton, they turned on to Main Street and had to stop for a passing train in front of what was Bradleys department store at the time ( It is currently the Old Taunton Mall). they both saw a bright red light appear over the top of a four story elderly complex as it approached them it suddenly lit up and appeared as two disks (like a pie plate inverted and another beneath). My mother has poor vision and is legally blind in one eye, she described it as a merry go round in the sky. My father told me that it was so large that is any one had been standing looking out towards the craft they would have been the size of match sticks. The object had reflective panels revolving around it and cross lights on its underside. It shot across the sky only showing its red lights. My question was why did no one else see this object. My parents made a report with the Taunton Police department. The following day in the our local newspaper there was a photograph of what was described as a castle floating in the sky over Rehobeth Ma .(Source NUFORC.org)
I am listing this report in hopes of confirmation of this experience. It was a warm summer evening in August 1980 around dusk. I was riding my bike home from Morton Hospital where I worked in the dietary department. As I approached Tremont Street, where I lived, I saw a fireball shoot across the sky.As I entered my driveway ,my parents car pulled in first ahead of me. It was odd to see my mom shaking and then she ran into the house. My father, who was sitting on an embankment next to our porch was shaking his head in disbelief. My father and mother told me that they where returning from a day down on the Cape. When they where driving back into Taunton, they turned on to Main Street and had to stop for a passing train in front of what was Bradleys department store at the time ( It is currently the Old Taunton Mall). they both saw a bright red light appear over the top of a four story elderly complex as it approached them it suddenly lit up and appeared as two disks (like a pie plate inverted and another beneath). My mother has poor vision and is legally blind in one eye, she described it as a merry go round in the sky. My father told me that it was so large that is any one had been standing looking out towards the craft they would have been the size of match sticks. The object had reflective panels revolving around it and cross lights on its underside. It shot across the sky only showing its red lights. My question was why did no one else see this object. My parents made a report with the Taunton Police department. The following day in the our local newspaper there was a photograph of what was described as a castle floating in the sky over Rehobeth Ma .(Source NUFORC.org)
10/20/1994
I saw a UFO hovering overhead above my location on the corner of Tremont Street and Anawan Street in Taunton Massachusetts. It was roughly 250 to 300 feet above ground level, I saw it clearly and know precisely what I saw. The craft is described as dark in color, circular, was hovering and moved at an estimated 5 to 8 miles per hour making not a single sound. I observed lights moving rapidly at a circular-flashing motion located underneath the craft as whitish/ reddish in color. I maintained observation of the craft for roughly eight to ten seconds prior to it simply disappearing beyond the tree-line into thin air as if it wasn’t ever there. (Source http://thecid.com )
I saw a UFO hovering overhead above my location on the corner of Tremont Street and Anawan Street in Taunton Massachusetts. It was roughly 250 to 300 feet above ground level, I saw it clearly and know precisely what I saw. The craft is described as dark in color, circular, was hovering and moved at an estimated 5 to 8 miles per hour making not a single sound. I observed lights moving rapidly at a circular-flashing motion located underneath the craft as whitish/ reddish in color. I maintained observation of the craft for roughly eight to ten seconds prior to it simply disappearing beyond the tree-line into thin air as if it wasn’t ever there. (Source http://thecid.com )
8/15/2005
It was over 300 yds long and approx 80 yds high and made no no sound at all.
It was abot 7pm at night when I saw the object. This object was huge. Much larger than a blimp. The shape was like taking two pie plates and putting them together. It had 6 oblong lights . The craft was some 300yds long and 80 yds high or so. This craft made no noise and hovered just over the tree tops. I have never seen anything that large fly let alone be only 100 yds away and not hear a thing. The Swiss Airline reported to Logan the next day I heard on the news about a near run in on its way to or from Logan Airport. My vision on the craft's shape differs from the one described on TV as a rocket shaped one. I went to get my neighbor and returned but it had disappeared. This was near the quarry in Taunton, MA. (Source NUFORC.org)
It was over 300 yds long and approx 80 yds high and made no no sound at all.
It was abot 7pm at night when I saw the object. This object was huge. Much larger than a blimp. The shape was like taking two pie plates and putting them together. It had 6 oblong lights . The craft was some 300yds long and 80 yds high or so. This craft made no noise and hovered just over the tree tops. I have never seen anything that large fly let alone be only 100 yds away and not hear a thing. The Swiss Airline reported to Logan the next day I heard on the news about a near run in on its way to or from Logan Airport. My vision on the craft's shape differs from the one described on TV as a rocket shaped one. I went to get my neighbor and returned but it had disappeared. This was near the quarry in Taunton, MA. (Source NUFORC.org)