Springfield, MA, USA
White blinking light moved from one part of the sky to another part of the sky in a matter of seconds.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-06
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-springfield-ma-2013-6382aa
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…
Local cluster
July 2013 was a busy month for Springfield, MA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 47 reports logged in Springfield, MA.
- This case is one of 196 Massachusetts reports filed in 2013.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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