UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2008

Boston, MA, USA

Large cylinder moving north at great speed without sound over logan airport. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-01-29
Where
Boston, MA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 min.
Geo
42.358, -71.060 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-boston-ma-2008-da3b78
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Boston, MA shows up 104 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from Massachusetts in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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