UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Brockton, MA, USA

UFO or Planet? ((NUFORC Note: Probably a sighting of Venus, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (14 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-02-24
Where
Brockton, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Not to sure
Geo
42.083, -71.018 · exact
Slug
circle-over-brockton-ma-2017-656611
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Brockton, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 100 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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