Braintree, MA, USA
Small metallic sphere seen suspended 40 feet in air.. In BROAD DAYLIGHT 3:00.. in Braintree
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-01
- Where
- Braintree, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 1/2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.204, -71.002 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-braintree-ma-2005-7867eb
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…
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Braintree, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 61 sightings in 2005.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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