CaseSphere1998
Boston, MA, USA
Large spherical object floating over the Charles River amid the smoke following a Fourth of July Fireworks display.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 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
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.358, -71.060 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-boston-ma-1998-88b937
In context
- Boston, MA has 104 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 27 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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