Manchester, MA, USA
Glowing Green and yellow fireball Over the water in Manchester by the sea. Possibly an asteroid... But I just don't know!
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-22
- Where
- Manchester, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.996, -71.455 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-manchester-ma-2012-d28ece
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
- Manchester, MA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Massachusetts in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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