West Newbury, MA, USA
((HOAX??)) I picked up my friends to drive them to school. After picking them up, we saw a flying saucer. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-01-11
- Where
- West Newbury, MA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 42.801, -70.990 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-west-newbury-ma-2017-443306
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 3 reports logged in West Newbury, MA.
- This case is one of 100 Massachusetts reports filed in 2017.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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