CaseCone2020

Pittsfield, MA, USA

I was sitting on my porch smoking a cigarette when all a sudden I hear this extra loud train noise. I then see a bright light cone shap

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-10
Where
Pittsfield, MA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
42.450, -73.245 · exact
Slug
cone-over-pittsfield-ma-2020-1b34be
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

  • Pittsfield, MA shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 138 reports came from Massachusetts in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 0.2% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Report

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