CaseSphere1998
Boston, MA, USA
UFO spotted above Charles River during July 4th fireworks (1998)
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-04
- Where
- Boston, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Unsure
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-boston-ma-1998-40ef1f
In context
- One of 104 documented reports from Boston, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 27 sightings in 1998.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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