Centerville, MA, USA
Small orange shooting metior travelling Northeast direction direction. ((anonymous report))((NUFORC Note: Meteor?? PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (70 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
- 2018-04-21
- Where
- Centerville, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.649, -70.348 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-centerville-ma-2018-e9a168
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
- Centerville, MA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from Massachusetts in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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