CaseSphere2011

Mashpee, MA, USA

Approximately 10 silver/ irridescent spheres seen flying South in a formation over Cape Cod, MA

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-22
Where
Mashpee, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
~30 sec.
Geo
41.648, -70.481 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mashpee-ma-2011-e3eb97
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…

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Mashpee, MA.
  • This case is one of 106 Massachusetts reports filed in 2011.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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