CaseCircle2014

Duxbury, MA, USA

Several orange orbs observed in the sky in forest.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-20
Where
Duxbury, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Several hours
Geo
42.042, -70.672 · exact
Slug
circle-over-duxbury-ma-2014-c4c284
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…

In context

  • Duxbury, MA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 201 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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