UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Harvard, MA, USA

Meteor-type object travel up-ward, out of wooded area.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-17
Where
Harvard, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 or 4 seconds
Geo
42.500, -71.583 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-harvard-ma-2004-8deea5
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

  • Harvard, MA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 64 reports came from Massachusetts in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.