Boston, MA, USA
Large metallic-object, oblong shaped--disappeared completely from cloudless sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-28
- Where
- Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-boston-ma-2012-e6b9a2
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
- One of 104 documented reports from Boston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 161 sightings in 2012.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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