Chelsea, MA, USA
Bright, oval shape at very high speed zoomed through the sky. I found a report from Leicester, MA on 6/26 and it was exactly the same.
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-29
- Where
- Chelsea, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 42.392, -71.033 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chelsea-ma-2015-56ac5f
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
- Chelsea, MA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 146 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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