CaseFlash2019
Springfield, MA, USA
Flash of sparks on I-291 Spfd. MA. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-02-01
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-springfield-ma-2019-43af5d
Wave
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
- This is one of 47 reports logged in Springfield, MA.
- This case is one of 117 Massachusetts reports filed in 2019.
- 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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