CaseLight2019

North Billerica, MA, USA

Very bright light that moved like a shooting star but much, much larger. Light was bright white. Brighter in the center. Lit the ent

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-16
Where
North Billerica, MA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.583, -71.284 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-billerica-ma-2019-ea213f
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

  • North Billerica, MA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 117 reports came from Massachusetts in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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