CaseOval2002
Boston, MA, USA
Floating balloons or UFO
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (24 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-19
- Where
- Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-boston-ma-2002-af1ed4
In context
- Boston, MA has 104 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 51 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.