Saugus, MA, USA
Bright white flashing roundish object, center of the object appeared to be emitting a red, then green, then bluish light at the center.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-19
- Where
- Saugus, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.465, -71.010 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-saugus-ma-2020-948f36
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
- Saugus, MA shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 138 reports came from Massachusetts in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.