CaseFireball2015
Oxford, MA, USA
6 candle/fireballs moving silently through the sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-12
- Where
- Oxford, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.117, -71.865 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oxford-ma-2015-45b91c
Wave
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
- Oxford, MA has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 146 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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