Walpole, MA, USA
About 9:00pm on Aug.11, 2018, driving south on a dark section of highway 1A in Walpole, I saw a bright yellow glow, like a ball of fire
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-11
- Where
- Walpole, MA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.142, -71.249 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-walpole-ma-2018-d40d28
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Walpole, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 70 sightings in 2018.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).
Report
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