UFOMYST
CaseOval1990

Boston, MA, USA

An unidentified flying (still?) object sighted in Boston in the summer of 1990

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-08-08
Where
Boston, MA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 hour
Geo
42.358, -71.060 · exact
Slug
oval-over-boston-ma-1990-fff841
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • One of 104 documented reports from Boston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 8 sightings in 1990.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).

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.