Clinton, MA, USA
Object was jet black in color and had strange angles to it; seemed to hover at times; continued in a straight NE dir. ((MUFON rept.))
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-05
- Where
- Clinton, MA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.417, -71.683 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-clinton-ma-2018-3c6160
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Clinton, MA.
- This case is one of 70 Massachusetts reports filed in 2018.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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