Beverly, MA, USA
Fiery Cigar shaped ufo seen in backyard
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-20
- Where
- Beverly, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.558, -70.880 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-beverly-ma-2020-47cfbc
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
Beverly, MA logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2020.
In context
- One of 17 documented reports from Beverly, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 138 sightings in 2020.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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