UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Dedham, MA, USA

Clear/no clouds night. On patrol, parked in lot with second cruiser. Noticed two distinct flashes similar to lightning flash or trans

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-31
Where
Dedham, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
42.242, -71.166 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dedham-ma-2008-2ef2f2
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • Dedham, MA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from Massachusetts in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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