CaseFireball2010

Reading, MA, USA

5 fireballs in triangular prismatic formation.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-04
Where
Reading, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
42.526, -71.095 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-reading-ma-2010-16163f
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…

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Reading, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 107 sightings in 2010.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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