CaseLight1999
Boston, MA, USA
star like object getting brighter and brighter and then moving slowly out of sight
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-05
- Where
- Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-boston-ma-1999-737c67
In context
- This is one of 104 reports logged in Boston, MA.
- This case is one of 31 Massachusetts reports filed in 1999.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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