CaseDiamond2009
Boston, MA, USA
Giant white glowing Star like object (diamond shaped) above Boston MA
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-24
- Where
- Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-boston-ma-2009-35cc58
Wave
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
- This is one of 104 reports logged in Boston, MA.
- This case is one of 79 Massachusetts reports filed in 2009.
- Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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