Boston, MA, USA
23AUG2012, 2030Hrs., Boston City Hall Plaza, Triangular Craft...
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 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
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-boston-ma-2012-c3b84b
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
Boston, MA logged 5 reports in the single month of August 2012.
In context
- One of 104 documented reports from Boston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 161 sightings in 2012.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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