Boston, MA, USA
Triangular Craft Over Boston City Hall Plaza, August 23, 2012, at Approx. 2030hrs…
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-23
- Where
- Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Approx. 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-boston-ma-2012-3f7341
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Boston, MA reports filed in August 2012.
In context
- Boston, MA shows up 104 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Massachusetts in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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