Framingham, MA, USA
I was on my deck. I saw an orange ball of light kind of floating. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus or Jupiter? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (65 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
- 2015-12-01
- Where
- Framingham, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- >1 hour
- Geo
- 42.279, -71.416 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-framingham-ma-2015-d6cf1b
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
- Framingham, MA shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 146 reports came from Massachusetts in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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