CaseSphere2015

Hampton Beach, MA, USA

I looked at the pictures on my phone of a sundog and noticed there was something else in my photos.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-29
Where
Hampton Beach, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.907, -70.812 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-hampton-beach-ma-2015-2e944e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hampton Beach, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 146 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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