UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Gloucester, MA, USA

I first saw the object with a circular pattern of lights hovering at about 300 yards over my head near the Gloucester City Hall... It h

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-10
Where
Gloucester, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.614, -70.663 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-gloucester-ma-2020-8d0455
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…

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In context

  • One of 22 documented reports from Gloucester, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 138 sightings in 2020.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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