UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Hadley, MA, USA

Flat circular cloud formation falling from the sky as if heavy then hovering

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-06
Where
Hadley, MA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
12 seconds
Geo
42.342, -72.588 · exact
Slug
oval-over-hadley-ma-2008-1c584b
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

  • Hadley, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from Massachusetts in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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