UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Sandwich, MA, USA

The first sighting was two bright orange/red balls going thru the sky with no sound.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-02
Where
Sandwich, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
41.759, -70.494 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sandwich-ma-2015-447748
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

August 2015 was a busy month for Sandwich, MA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Sandwich, MA.
  • This case is one of 146 Massachusetts reports filed in 2015.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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