CaseFormation2001
Waltham, MA, USA
An extremely bright light that appeared to be a star but when viewed through binoculars, three distinct lights banded together.
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-19
- Where
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 42.376, -71.236 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-waltham-ma-2001-6ae8a4
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Waltham, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 42 sightings in 2001.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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