Somerset, MA, USA
Single orange-red orb traversing the sky in 30-seconds, above cloud cover, SE to NW
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-11-15
- Where
- Somerset, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 41.770, -71.129 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-somerset-ma-2020-3fa8af
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
- Somerset, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 138 reports came from Massachusetts in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.