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
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: 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
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
- 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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