UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Newton, MA, USA

I took my dog out and saw a lit up saucer shaped space craft for about 1 min in the sky and then it just turned off like a lightbulb

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-23
Where
Newton, MA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
under 1 min
Geo
42.337, -71.209 · exact
Slug
disk-over-newton-ma-2008-c1e1de
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

  • Newton, MA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 75 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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