UFOMYST
CaseSphere2021

Gloucester, MA, USA

Across Gloucester Harbor south of Eastern Point were to spheres hovering near the lighthouse area dimming then brightening their lights

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.

  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-29
Where
Gloucester, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30
Geo
42.614, -70.663 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-gloucester-ma-2021-dd9778
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

  • Gloucester, MA has 22 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 69 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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