Flying saucer spotted north of Boston
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Gregory Kushmerek
By: Patrick J. Kiger
Published June 8, 2012
Superstition holds that Friday the 13th is supposed to
be unlucky, but for two Essex county residents traveling on U.S. Interstate 95
north of Boston, June 13, 2008 was a day to have an otherworldly experience.
At about 10 a.m. that morning, Robert Mace, 36, of
Amesbury, MA, was driving his 19-year-old nephew James to a local high school
in nearby Newbury to pick up some paperwork. They looked up into the sky and
were startled to see what the elder Mace described as a “silver, illuminated
saucer flying through the air,” according to an interview that he gave to the
Gloucester Times.
The sighting occurred near Exit 55-Byfield, slightly
more than 30 miles north of Boston. Robert Mace said the object was “brightly
illuminated in the clear blue sky.”
As the pair watched, the saucer changed shape into a
cylinder, leaving a trail of smoke, which Robert Mace said that “it snuffed out
like a candle.” The incident lasted about 30 seconds, he told the
newspaper.
Hours after the incident, Mace’s voice was still
trembly as he recounted the UFO encounter, the newspaper reported. “I never saw
anything like this in my life, and I probably never will again," he said.
James Mace said in an interview with the Times that at
first, he thought his mind was playing tricks on him—until he realized that his
uncle was watching the UFO as well.
"I just watched it disappear like a cloud or
something," the younger Mace said. "I don't know how to explain it.
It was pretty crazy.”
His uncle agreed. “We just looked at each other, and
we both knew what we saw,” he explained.
According to the Times, Massachusetts state police
said they had not received any other reports from motorists who saw the same
UFO, and a Federal Aviation Administration official told the newspaper that the
agency didn’t have the time or resources to investigate such incidents.
But a search of databases maintained by two UFO
research organizations yielded two reports of similar sightings in the Boston
area within a day or so of the Maces’ sighting.
On June 12, the day before the Maces’ sighting, a
witness who filed a report with the Mutual UFO Network reported seeing “a
silver disk-like object” along Atlantic Road in Gloucester. The object appeared
to have either a tail or smoke trailing behind it.
According to the National UFO Reporting Center
database, for example, a witness driving north in I-98/Route 128 in Canton, MA,
about 60 miles to the south, saw a “flashing disc” that same day at 9 a.m.
about an hour before the Maces’ sighting.
“ I saw a bright flash of light and looked up to see a
dull silvery metallic object in the sky about 10-15 miles away between 40-70
feet across in width and 10 -20 feet in height,” the witness, who chose to
remain anonymous, reported. The object appeared to be somewhere over the
Blue Hills Reservation, a state park in the area.
“It was not anything that I have ever seen before,”
the anonymous witness recounted. “ I looked at the object in the sky for
approximately six to eight seconds before it flashed again, only brighter and
longer, it seemed. “ The glow seemed to come from the area around the
object, rather than its surface.
When the object’s aura subsided after two to three
seconds, it sat motionless for another six to eight seconds before giving off
another burst of light and fading from sight, the witness said. “It was like
someone was spray-painting the sky behind it onto what you were seeing. It
disappeared in sections, bit by bit.”
A Google search yielded numerous other reports of
shape-shifting UFOs on UFO enthusiasts’ websites. A February 2009 article in
the Coventry Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported that five residents
watched a helicopter chase a set of 10 shape-shifting lights through the
sky. Some UFO researchers have speculated that alien spacecraft may
not actually change shape, but instead use some sort of cloaking device that
projects the illusion that they are.
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