Rectangle over Dorchester, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was watching television with my fiancé when I felt like I needed to go outside for some air. When I sat on my front steps I looked into the sky and noticed what looked like an extremely large flashing star. It was so strange that I pulled out my cellphone and began to record it. Afterwards I expanded the video and looked closer and I noticed smaller lights surrounding the original light. My search to find out what these tiny twinkles were lead me to look at my video frame by frame where I then got an extremely clear picture of what looks like a perfect rectangle of either light or smoke. The object remained in the same place for the next two hours at least before I went to bed. I will include the original video, my zoomed in video of the object, and my final still shot of the rectangle showing which part of the video I got the stillshot.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170812). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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