UFOMYST
CaseCross2018

Westford, MA, USA

Craft seemed to hover in southern sky. Reflected bright light. Looked like mirror array through binoculars. ((NUFORC Note:: Mars? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 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
2018-07-10
Where
Westford, MA, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
42.579, -71.438 · exact
Slug
cross-over-westford-ma-2018-0383ac
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

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Westford, MA.
  • This case is one of 70 Massachusetts reports filed in 2018.
  • Cross craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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