Topsfield, MA, USA
Driving up 95N just before exit 50(Topsfield/Boxford) saw a yellow/orange/green teardrop shaped sphere moving at a very high rate of sp
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-27
- Where
- Topsfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 42.638, -70.950 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-topsfield-ma-2012-3e626a
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 4 reports logged in Topsfield, MA.
- This case is one of 161 Massachusetts reports filed in 2012.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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