Exit 8 mass pike, MA, USA
Driving north on mass pike right before exit 8. We saw four round orange bright lights flying low in the sky. The lights were not blink
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-25
- Where
- Exit 8 mass pike, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-exit-8-mass-pike-ma-2016-f06250
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
- Exit 8 mass pike, MA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Massachusetts in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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