Westport, MA, USA
((HOAX??)) Huge object comes out of water at horseneck beach then disappears orange circle.
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2014-01-21
- Where
- Westport, MA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.626, -71.026 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-westport-ma-2014-a28a06
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
- Westport, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Massachusetts in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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