Centerville, MA, USA
8:15pm, Cape Cod, 3 round orange lights, with a denseness to them, traveling slowly but steadily from the northeast to the south.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-26
- Where
- Centerville, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30-60 seconds
- Geo
- 41.649, -70.348 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-centerville-ma-2014-589593
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
- Centerville, MA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Massachusetts in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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