Webster, MA, USA
I was sitting in my computer room when I heard a very loud deep sizzling-like sound, I turned toward the window to see what looked like
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-13
- Where
- Webster, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.050, -71.880 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-webster-ma-2012-af0e36
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
- Webster, MA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Massachusetts in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.