Dover Demon

The Dover Demon is a creature reportedly sighted on April 21–22, 1977, in Dover, Massachusetts, a town approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of downtown Boston.

17-year-old William "Bill" Bartlett claimed that while driving on April 21, 1977, he observed a creature "about 4 feet tall with glowing orange eyes and no nose or mouth in a watermelon-shaped head" perched on top of a broken stone wall on Farm Street in Dover, Massachusetts. That same evening, 15-year-old John Baxter reported encountering a similar creature on Miller Hill Road. The following night, another 15-year-old, Abby Brabham, claimed to have seen the creature on Springdale Avenue.

All three teenagers created sketches of the alleged creature. Bartlett wrote on his drawing, "I, Bill Bartlett, swear on a stack of Bibles that I saw this creature." According to a local news report, "the locations of the sightings, plotted on a map, lay in a straight line over 2 miles [3.2 km]." The sightings weren't made public until the first half of May. At that time, a local "investigator of unexplained phenomenon" noted similarities to creatures in the Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter of 1955. Despite none of the witnesses reporting UFO sightings, the incidents were also investigated by the Mutual UFO Network and associated groups.