UFOMYST
CaseOval2014

New Bedford, MA, USA

Around 9:30 pm my son and I were outside cooking on the grill, it was a fairly clear evening . We noticed how bright the stars were. We

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-09-22
Where
New Bedford, MA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
41.635, -70.927 · exact
Slug
oval-over-new-bedford-ma-2014-7cf358
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…

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In context

  • One of 29 documented reports from New Bedford, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 201 sightings in 2014.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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