UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Methuen, MA, USA

We looked at the SW sky and noticed these fireballs, sort of. Orange-Red.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-25
Where
Methuen, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.726, -71.191 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-methuen-ma-2014-916af9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Methuen, MA reports filed in May 2014.

In context

  • Methuen, MA shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 201 reports came from Massachusetts in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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