UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Lowell, MA, USA

Orange ball like burning ember moving in erratic pattern about 5000 feet

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-17
Where
Lowell, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
42.633, -71.316 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lowell-ma-2013-76ca5d
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

  • Lowell, MA has 36 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 196 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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