CaseCircle2018
Waltham (west of), MA, USA
Large Circle with what looked like fast moving lights orbiting
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-03-11
- Where
- Waltham (west of), MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 hours +
- Geo
- 42.376, -71.236 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-waltham-west-of-ma-2018-0935a3
Wave
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
- Waltham (west of), MA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 70 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure 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.