CaseUnknown2010

Taunton, MA, USA

((HOAX??)) saw a strange object in the night sky

Report quality: Low18/100

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
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2010-01-10
Where
Taunton, MA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.900, -71.090 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-taunton-ma-2010-03317c
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…

In context

  • Taunton, MA has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 107 reports from Massachusetts.

Report

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