Sandwich, MA, USA
Glowing orange UFO sighted in Sandwich, MA on August 7th, 2015
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-07
- Where
- Sandwich, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.759, -70.494 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sandwich-ma-2015-f3e4ec
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Sandwich, MA in August 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Sandwich, MA has 9 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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