Barnstable, MA, USA
Upon arriving at the near end of Scusset Beach jetty i snapped a few pics of sun and surrounding area to later notice a bright object i
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-31
- Where
- Barnstable, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 snapshot
- Geo
- 41.700, -70.299 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-barnstable-ma-2020-5d8461
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 5 reports logged in Barnstable, MA.
- This case is one of 138 Massachusetts reports filed in 2020.
- Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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