Northborough, MA, USA
One bright, white, glowing circle of light about ¼ of a mile away, above the tree line seen from the backyard of my house.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-23
- Where
- Northborough, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 42.320, -71.641 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-northborough-ma-2012-2ca0b3
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
- Northborough, MA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 161 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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