UFOMYST
CaseOval2018

Fitchburg, MA, USA

Bright red lights forming huge oval object.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-28
Where
Fitchburg, MA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30-60 seconds
Geo
42.583, -71.802 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fitchburg-ma-2018-7e564a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fitchburg, MA shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 70 reports came from Massachusetts in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.