UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Ipswich, MA, USA

Spherical type objects hovering above the sky for long durations, rapid movement.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 6000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-04-30
Where
Ipswich, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
40 Minutes - 1 Hour
Geo
42.679, -70.841 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-ipswich-ma-2012-f3d39b
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Ipswich, MA has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 161 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.