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CaseSphere2010

Manchester-by-the-sea, MA, USA

I witnessed a bright orange glowing object in the sky on a starless night, and disappear as a plane flew near.

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 (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-05-14
Where
Manchester-by-the-sea, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
About 2 minutes.
Geo
42.578, -70.769 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-manchester-by-the-sea-ma-2010-cf3a35
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Manchester-by-the-sea, MA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 107 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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