UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Boston, MA, USA

Bright light heading east at a rapid rate of speed originally thought it was a crashing aircraft but there were no reports of such even

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-25
Where
Boston, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2.5 seconds
Geo
42.358, -71.060 · exact
Slug
circle-over-boston-ma-2018-ee7a7c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 104 reports logged in Boston, MA.
  • This case is one of 70 Massachusetts reports filed in 2018.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.