CaseOval2010

Westboro, MA, USA

bright flashing object at dusk northeast sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-23
Where
Westboro, MA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
45.355, -90.296 · fallback
Slug
oval-over-westboro-ma-2010-1353b2
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…

In context

  • Westboro, MA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 107 reports came from Massachusetts in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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