Cryptids and UFOs in Massachusetts

Creatures reported in Massachusetts

Sea serpentaka Sea monster, Gloucester sea serpentLong, humped serpents reported by sailors in every ocean for centuries.Dover DemonA small, big-headed creature with glowing orange eyes seen over two nights in 1977.

Famous cases

1. 1817Gloucester Harbor sightings
   Sea serpent · Gloucester, Massachusetts
2. 1977Bartlett sighting
   Dover Demon · Dover, Massachusetts

UFO files

• 201 US Air Force Project Blue Book files from Massachusetts, 1947 to 1969
• 8 FAA pilot reports of lights and objects over Massachusetts, 2007 to 2024
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Encounters and mysteries

• The Dover Demon sightingsDover, Massachusetts, USA, 1977Over two nights, three teenagers in Dover, Massachusetts, said they saw a spindly, big-headed creature with glowing eyes.

From the old newspapers

Strange creatures, sea serpents and mystery airships reported in Massachusetts papers before 1927.

1. 1884Six young men see the serpent off Grape Island
   Ipswich
2. 1886Four campers at Rockport stop doubting
   Rockport
3. 1886A sailing party meets the serpent off Gloucester
   Gloucester
4. 1886Fifty people watch the serpent off Pigeon Cove
   Rockport
5. 1890A serpent lassoed off Brant Rock
   Marshfield
6. 1891Gloucester fishermen meet a serpent on the Flemish Cap
   Gloucester
7. 1893Provincetown fishermen kill a 'sea serpent'
   Provincetown
8. 1896A lobsterman's monster in Plum Cove
   Lanesville
9. 1896The Provincetown sea serpent was a turtle
   Provincetown
10. 1897A white serpent off the New England coast
    Aquinnah
11. 1897A flat head beside the boat off Salem
    Salem
12. 1899Swampscott fishermen row for their lives
    Swampscott

All 18 newspaper reports from Massachusetts

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