Dorchester, MA, USA
Drifting, wobbly light moving quickly across the night sky and disappearing three days after 1st sighting. ((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-07-09
- Where
- Dorchester, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 75 seconds
- Geo
- 42.297, -71.075 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-dorchester-ma-2010-5b2f59
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
- Dorchester, MA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 107 reports came from Massachusetts in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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