NEW BEDFORD
2/25/1950
A Silent shiny 1m wide glowing saucer hovered 300m over city incinerator, flew off rapidly to the northwest. The disc was observed by two witnesses for 20 minutes.
2/28/1961
(same Object as observed in Lakeville on the same night and nearly the same time)
A witness heard a loud noise at 3:15AM and saw a barrel-like object with "black smoke" at each end. The object "bobbed up and over" like a bobber on a fishline and gave off a blinding light as it moved slowly from west to east. At 3:30 AM the UFO disappeared heading South towards Fairhaven.
New Bedford ma July 1967
My friends and I were playing cowboys and indians outside when I saw a silver disk 15 ft. above a corner house. It was a silver ufo saucer shape with thick windows around it. I told one of my friends who did look at it but he just said “ oh its just a new helicopter or plane and just went back to playing. I wanted to get a better look so I started walking towards the house which was on the corner of Potomska St and Rt 18. When I got to the corner the object was overhead. The object looked flat on the bottom with no propulsion system. The object then started to move slowly to the East. It was a clear summer day and this was not a weather balloon. I started to run after it and then it took off like a shot. No cars came by during the sighting and no one else besides my friends were around. Everything was quiet no birds or sounds at all. I ran home and told my parents and they could see that I was all worked up.(Source Story Submitted to this website)
4/10/1979
Neither Francisco Marreiros nor Manuel Pateiro is quite sure what they saw out there on the fishing grounds earlier this week, but they wonder whether they had a "close encounter" with a UFO.
The two New Bedford fishermen were on the bridge of the trawler Christina and Sandra Tuesday night when they saw a bright, circular flying object fixed stationary above the water ahead of them. Before they finally turned their vessel away from the object about five minutes later, they said its flashing lights changed color -- first from white to green and then to reddish orange -- and appeared to have an antenna.
Both fishermen talked to 'the Standard-Times about their experience through an Portuguese interpreter this morning as the Christina and Sandra unloaded its catch at the Pilgrim Fish Co.
Neither stated clearly how close the object came to their approaching vessel, nor how high the object was above the water. However, both indicated lights from the object flashed down from the sky. According to Marreiros, owner and skipper of the 78-foot vessel, the encounter also disabled the vessel's Loran system for about 15 minutes after the experience and the trawler was also unable to pick up the object on the vessel’s radar system throughout the time.
"I didn't appreciate seeing that thing," Marreiros said through the interpreter. "I am wondering now if it was a flying saucer, what would have happened if we had stayed." The trawler owner said it had been raining for about 10 minutes before the crew first noticed the object. Marreiros said he first brought it to the attention of Pateiro, who was on the bridge with him. He estimated the vessel’s position was around 60 miles east of the Nantucket Lightship, around the 3200, 6250 Loran position lines. It was around 11:30 at night.
Pateiro, who drew a sketch of the sighting, said the object was about the size of the Christina and Sandra, and stood fixed in the sky at all times. Marreiros described the flashing beacons much like the flashing dome of a police car. “Something normal it wasn't," said Marreiros. "We were steaming, just sailing toward it, and it was there," said Pateiro. "As we were navigating, it started changing colors."
"We turned away," Marreiros said.
Both men were at a loss to identify what they might have seen. They agreed that they had never seen anything like it before.
A spokesman for the Coast Guard 1st District headquarters in Boston indicated that "very few" UFO reports have been filed with the Coast Guard in the past. They said there have been no recent reports of UFO sightings. The Air Force usually investigates such incidents, they noted. (Source STANDARD TIMES, New Bedford, MA - Apr. 12, 1979)
2/25/1950
A Silent shiny 1m wide glowing saucer hovered 300m over city incinerator, flew off rapidly to the northwest. The disc was observed by two witnesses for 20 minutes.
2/28/1961
(same Object as observed in Lakeville on the same night and nearly the same time)
A witness heard a loud noise at 3:15AM and saw a barrel-like object with "black smoke" at each end. The object "bobbed up and over" like a bobber on a fishline and gave off a blinding light as it moved slowly from west to east. At 3:30 AM the UFO disappeared heading South towards Fairhaven.
New Bedford ma July 1967
My friends and I were playing cowboys and indians outside when I saw a silver disk 15 ft. above a corner house. It was a silver ufo saucer shape with thick windows around it. I told one of my friends who did look at it but he just said “ oh its just a new helicopter or plane and just went back to playing. I wanted to get a better look so I started walking towards the house which was on the corner of Potomska St and Rt 18. When I got to the corner the object was overhead. The object looked flat on the bottom with no propulsion system. The object then started to move slowly to the East. It was a clear summer day and this was not a weather balloon. I started to run after it and then it took off like a shot. No cars came by during the sighting and no one else besides my friends were around. Everything was quiet no birds or sounds at all. I ran home and told my parents and they could see that I was all worked up.(Source Story Submitted to this website)
4/10/1979
Neither Francisco Marreiros nor Manuel Pateiro is quite sure what they saw out there on the fishing grounds earlier this week, but they wonder whether they had a "close encounter" with a UFO.
The two New Bedford fishermen were on the bridge of the trawler Christina and Sandra Tuesday night when they saw a bright, circular flying object fixed stationary above the water ahead of them. Before they finally turned their vessel away from the object about five minutes later, they said its flashing lights changed color -- first from white to green and then to reddish orange -- and appeared to have an antenna.
Both fishermen talked to 'the Standard-Times about their experience through an Portuguese interpreter this morning as the Christina and Sandra unloaded its catch at the Pilgrim Fish Co.
Neither stated clearly how close the object came to their approaching vessel, nor how high the object was above the water. However, both indicated lights from the object flashed down from the sky. According to Marreiros, owner and skipper of the 78-foot vessel, the encounter also disabled the vessel's Loran system for about 15 minutes after the experience and the trawler was also unable to pick up the object on the vessel’s radar system throughout the time.
"I didn't appreciate seeing that thing," Marreiros said through the interpreter. "I am wondering now if it was a flying saucer, what would have happened if we had stayed." The trawler owner said it had been raining for about 10 minutes before the crew first noticed the object. Marreiros said he first brought it to the attention of Pateiro, who was on the bridge with him. He estimated the vessel’s position was around 60 miles east of the Nantucket Lightship, around the 3200, 6250 Loran position lines. It was around 11:30 at night.
Pateiro, who drew a sketch of the sighting, said the object was about the size of the Christina and Sandra, and stood fixed in the sky at all times. Marreiros described the flashing beacons much like the flashing dome of a police car. “Something normal it wasn't," said Marreiros. "We were steaming, just sailing toward it, and it was there," said Pateiro. "As we were navigating, it started changing colors."
"We turned away," Marreiros said.
Both men were at a loss to identify what they might have seen. They agreed that they had never seen anything like it before.
A spokesman for the Coast Guard 1st District headquarters in Boston indicated that "very few" UFO reports have been filed with the Coast Guard in the past. They said there have been no recent reports of UFO sightings. The Air Force usually investigates such incidents, they noted. (Source STANDARD TIMES, New Bedford, MA - Apr. 12, 1979)
6/1/1981
WHILE WALKING FROM A SUNNYBROOKS FARMS STORE IN NEW BEDFORD MASS.
MY WIFE AND FRIEND HAD A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A U.F.O .WE WERE WALKING WEST TO HER HOUSE
WHICH IS EAST OF THE N.B. AIRPORT. TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE AIRPORT I SAW A BLUE BALL ABOVE
CHAMBERLANES (A FACTORY THAT MADE BULLETS AND BOMB SHELLS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AT
THAT TIME). I TOLD THE GIRLS TO LOOK UP AND I SAID HEY THAT PLANE LOOKS LIKE A UFO THEY WHERE LIKE YEAH RIGHT AND THEY IGNORED IT, BUT I KEPT MY EYES ON IT THE WHOLE TIME. WHEN IT STARTED TO MOVE I TOLD THE GIRLS TO LOOK AND THEY THEY WERE NOW IMPRESSED AND SCARED BECAUSE IT WAS JUST GLIDING IN THE THE NIGHT SKY GETTING BIGGER AND ADDING ON COLORS RED, GREEN, WHITE, YELLOW AND ORANGE. WHEN I FIRST SAW IT WAS THE SIZE OF DIME AT ARMS LENGTH WHEN IT WAS ADDING ON COLORS IT WAS THE SIZE OF MY FIST AT ARMS LENGTH. AT THIS POINT I TOLD THE GIRLS IT IS A UFO AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE US THE SECOND I SAID THAT IT STARTED ROTATE CLOCKWISE. IT LOOKED LIKE A MERRY GO ROUND IN THE NIGHT SKY,IN A MATTER OF SECONDS IT WAS ABOVE OUR HEADS THE GIRLS SCREAMED TOLD ME TO RUN I TOLD THEM I WASN'T AFRAID. BUT I WAS AFRAID AND AMAZED I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING LIGHTS ABOVE ME A ROUND SPACESHIP THE SIZE OF A FOOTBALL FIELD ROTATING LIGHTS TOTALLY SILENT.THEN I LOOKED TO
SEE IF ANYBODY WAS AROUND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THERE WAS NOBODY. AS I STARTED TO BACK AWAY FROM THE UFO ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS TURNED WHITE AND IT STARTED TO MOVE OR GLIDE SOUTHEAST STILL NO SOUND. ALMOST TOUCHING THE ROOF TOP OF 3 FAMILY HOME. I'LL NEVER
FORGET IT NEVER !!!! (Source NUFORC.org)
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10/17/1997
I was in middle school at the time and outside of my home on Highland Street in New Bedford. I was playing when all of a sudden the wind picked up and it was whipping debris around the yard and the trees and bushes were blowing all around like a huge wind storm would produce. The sky prior to this event was clear and calm. The fence in the yard was plastered by paper and leaves that was stuck to the fence by the wind. Then these 5 white lights arranged in a perfect circle flew slowly over. This craft made a loud sound like a rushing water. Then when the craft just passed over being directly over me it stopped for about 20 seconds. Then one white light out of the five took off at tremendous speed, one after the other until all five had left in this manner. I would find out the next day in school that my cousin that lives in the West End on Florence Street also saw this saw exact craft that night too. I still get goosebumps telling this story now after all these years. It was a very scary experience.(Source Story Submitted to this website)
I was in middle school at the time and outside of my home on Highland Street in New Bedford. I was playing when all of a sudden the wind picked up and it was whipping debris around the yard and the trees and bushes were blowing all around like a huge wind storm would produce. The sky prior to this event was clear and calm. The fence in the yard was plastered by paper and leaves that was stuck to the fence by the wind. Then these 5 white lights arranged in a perfect circle flew slowly over. This craft made a loud sound like a rushing water. Then when the craft just passed over being directly over me it stopped for about 20 seconds. Then one white light out of the five took off at tremendous speed, one after the other until all five had left in this manner. I would find out the next day in school that my cousin that lives in the West End on Florence Street also saw this saw exact craft that night too. I still get goosebumps telling this story now after all these years. It was a very scary experience.(Source Story Submitted to this website)
Cindy, 10/3/2003
While traveling south on Route 18, at roughly 20:40. I noticed five (5) white lights flying over the highway in an odd way. They appeared to me at first to be airplanes, but after watching more closely, there was no red tail lights. They moved across the night sky towards a set of transmission towers that were flashing red warning lights. At this time, the five lights appeared to hover next to these red flashing tower lights, making me think they were helicopters searching for something. I turned my vehicle around to follow the white lights, and as I did, I noticed that the hovering continued until I was probably a mile away from the transmission towers, when suddenly all five lights went out simultaneously. They did not land anywhere, not did anything else appear next to them when the lights went out. All totaled the experience lasted 8-10 minutes from the time of sighting to the lights shutting off. To note the type of weather outside was partly cloudy, but warm. The lights appeared in a well lit area overlooking New Bedford Harbor, and a highway illuminated with many lights. (Source Story Submitted to this website)
While traveling south on Route 18, at roughly 20:40. I noticed five (5) white lights flying over the highway in an odd way. They appeared to me at first to be airplanes, but after watching more closely, there was no red tail lights. They moved across the night sky towards a set of transmission towers that were flashing red warning lights. At this time, the five lights appeared to hover next to these red flashing tower lights, making me think they were helicopters searching for something. I turned my vehicle around to follow the white lights, and as I did, I noticed that the hovering continued until I was probably a mile away from the transmission towers, when suddenly all five lights went out simultaneously. They did not land anywhere, not did anything else appear next to them when the lights went out. All totaled the experience lasted 8-10 minutes from the time of sighting to the lights shutting off. To note the type of weather outside was partly cloudy, but warm. The lights appeared in a well lit area overlooking New Bedford Harbor, and a highway illuminated with many lights. (Source Story Submitted to this website)
12/18/2006
It was night time, but it light up the sky it had lights all around it and 2 on top that blinked white about 12 lights lite up all around the craft as it looked like it was getting ready to take off I was able to see the craft because of how it lite up the night sky, I belive the color of the craft was a smoke grey. This happened near Rockdale west over the woods near the tall flag pole about 50yds from it. I was skeptical at 1st about UFOs till I witnessed 2 in one week. The 2nd one happen only about 5 days before. The craft looked like a jet so at 1st thats what I thought it was however it wasn't. The craft had thrusters it looked like on each side front and back of the craft it was grey and silver and left no trail what so ever then all of a sudden it was gone in a blink of an eye The one happened over my house very high in the air. Unfortunately I have no pictures or video but I know what I seen those days and I hope one day there will be some light shed on these events and the goverment to acknowledge this to the public. (Source http://thecid.com/ufo)
9/2/2011
Around 7pm I spotted a disk-like object slowly flying over New Bedford at aprox. 300 ft in air. This object had some kind of glow around it with absolutely no sound and no lights, The sun was setting so the sun light shimmered over this object making it look metallic. It moved in ways i have never seen with normal aircraft.I tried to record this object with two smartphones and i could not see the object thru the viewfinder, only by eye. When it departed, it was gone instantly.(Source NUFORC.org)
6/24/2016
At around 7:30pm I was driving south on Route 140 near the Kings Highway exit when I first sighted the object. I just happened to look up for a quick second and noticed a strange bubble shaped object in the sky. It had a silver tint to it and it appeared to have a mirror type like quality to it. I continued to pay close attention to it as it started to move. Then it quickly moved away so fast, it looked like it vanished. This is near the New Bedford airport, but this was definitely not an aircraft. It was round and moved way too fast.(Source Story Submitted to this website)
8/9/2017
Believe I seen UFO around 10:00pm shawmut Ave New Bedford mass, August 9 2017. Looked like star moving across a clear night sky. No flashing lights usually identified by planes at night then as it got closer to my home it began to slowly disappear. It got less and less brighter. Strange when there were two other planes right behind it with flashing lights.(Source Story Submitted to this website)
9/16/2018 New Bedford
At around 5PM I was watching my niece jump on the trampoline with my mother. t around 5:00 p.m. my mother and i were in conversation when she said "whats that in the sky" I looked over to the right and into the sky and saw a large group of white spheres travelling across the sky they were going in a Northwest direction. To paint the best picture of the sighting the sky was clear and blue not a Single cloud in the sky with a half moon the spheres were white against a clear blue sky travelling under a half moon in very much daylight hours the formation resembled a banner composed of 'little white balls' and in this long banner if you can imagine the spheres were arranged in what appeared to be constellations furthermore they also appeared to be changing maybe as if there was some sort of message i wish i knew more about astronomy so i could have identified it my mother took video the moon is in focus but the spheres cannot be seen we were talking about it while she was recording and you can hear my niece say ' it looks like stars" (Source NUFORC.ORG)