Shirley, MA, USA
Ball of light appears in distance, reappears outside bedroom window, then shoots directly up into sky at light speed and disappears.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-12-26
- Where
- Shirley, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.544, -71.650 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-shirley-ma-2004-4ec093
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Shirley, MA.
- This case is one of 64 Massachusetts reports filed in 2004.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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