CaseChanging2014

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
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

  • 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 days

Report

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