CaseFireball2014

Stoughton, MA, USA

About 1 AM in the morning where an orange, circular craft that looked like it was literally on fire was seen hovering in place.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-06-11
Where
Stoughton, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 hours
Geo
42.125, -71.102 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-stoughton-ma-2014-1e5a6a
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

  • Stoughton, MA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 201 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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