West Boylston, MA, USA
Bright Florissant-green, circular light arching downward with a trail of the same color. ((NUFORC Note: Possible 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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (88 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
- 2010-01-07
- Where
- West Boylston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- approx. 1 sec.
- Geo
- 42.367, -71.786 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-west-boylston-ma-2010-79eb72
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
- One of 2 documented reports from West Boylston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 107 sightings in 2010.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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