Disk over Ludlow, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were getting into our car at the east st truck stop and it hovered closely and low above us and then quickly went westward in the sky and turned green and disappeared
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137511). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-11-27 → 2017-12-14
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January 6, 2022 · 4:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Ludlow, MA
We don't think we saw a craft, but we did see a long, black contrail. There was no craft or visible object leaving it, but it did grow in length over the course of about 20 minutes. Even after 30 minutes, it still had not dissipated or broken apart. We think it might have been a small asteroid burning up or perhaps space debris, but we are not certain.
October 1, 2020 · 6:04 AM · OTHER
Ludlow, MA
I was 6:00 pm in Ludlow, Ma, near Westover Air Force base in Chicopee, Ma my cousin and my Mon are in our driveway. I look up and I see white tic tac shaped ufo with a bright reflection. The ufo stayed and flying west at a steady pace. The aircraft made no sounds, was very reflective and had no lights in the area, unlike the very loud, gray, and big, jets that fly over our house every 30-45 mins. The ufo was gone shortly after taking a 23 second video. Then four mins later it came back around it was the same silent, reflective, white, tic tac shaped aircraft. I got a higher quality but shorter video.
October 1, 2020 · 6:00 AM · OTHER
Ludlow, MA
At 6:00 pm in Ludlow, ma in my driveway near Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee, ma. Me, my Mom, and my cousin saw a white, reflective, tic tac shaped object with no lights. The object was flying west and was silent I recorded a video. Then 4 mins later the same object came back and was flying west again. I recorded second and better quality video.
December 24, 2016 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
Ludlow, MA
Driving down the mass pike Christmas Eve. Noticed 4 orange lights in a v formation in the low sky. Almost looked like Chinese floating lanterns. Other people on the mass pike slowed down as the lights passed over us. If anyone else saw them please let us know.
August 4, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Ludlow, MA
Me and my wife were driving down East street Ludlow, Ma. There was just this EXTREMELY bright circular object in the sky, it was almost as if it was glistening. My wife said she felt as if it was two put together in one, like one behind the other, not saucer nothing like that, just these circular balls of light. The object was extremely bright during the dusk in Ludlow, MA around 8:15 pm. It was so bright I could barely pay attention to the road. It was not blinding me from driving, I just have never seen anything that bright in the sky before. We turned onto the bridge in Ludlow Ave and just like that it was gone. There were two helicopters in the air, I just felt odd because I knew they were looking at the same thing we were looking at. They looked like army helicopters, the ones with the double propellers. It was just so bright… My wife is usually a skeptic, but years ago I had a sighting at a lake out in the Indian Orchard area of a friend’s house, right in the vicinity of that area. I thought I would never have seen another anomaly in the sky again. The last sighting made me feel as if I was crazy, I just couldn’t understand the reality of what I had seen, not literal crazy. It was a clear blue sky, grey looking flat thing,with some kind of fog or haze appearing right before my eyes, not even like a saucer. It lasted for about 3 seconds maybe? I only say this because what I seen tonight, had made this my second sighting? Or so I like to believe. It just helped me to revalidate the questioning of my own sense of reality. I saw something very BRIGHT. I work at a fitness gym, I also run a few of my own businesses along with my wife. We are both extremely competent, and for her to be astonished, I knew she finally believed that there are just some things, clearly unexplainable.
March 18, 2016 · 4:40 PM · SPHERE
Ludlow, MA
While heading east on Mass Pike in Ludlow on 3/18/16, at approximately 4:40 PM, I noticed silverfish small round shape object in the sky on the right (one o'clock). It was clearly visible against a dark blue cloud, near a bow of rainbow, which originally drew my attention to that spot in the sky. I shortly noticed a second such object closer to the center of the view, and later two more on the left side. The objects disappeared very shortly. It started raining and no more sightings happen after that. Upon reviewing the recording form my dash cam, I saw not the four objects but numerous like flashing briefly objects showing up and disappearing very fast in that area. The quality of the recording sadly is not that great.