Waltham, MA, USA
At 20:30 we (me and my wife) went for the smoke break (we're not smoking in house 'cause of kids). Right after lighting up
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 (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-10
- Where
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.376, -71.236 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-waltham-ma-2019-dcf18f
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
- One of 9 documented reports from Waltham, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 117 sightings in 2019.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.