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
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
- 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 daysReport
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