CaseLight2013

Springfield, MA, USA

I was standing outside in my sisters yard looking up at the stars and out the corner of my eye,so I looked.It was a white light about 2

Report quality: High73/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-07-06
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~5 minutes
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
light-over-springfield-ma-2013-b53236
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Springfield, MA logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2013.

In context

  • One of 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 196 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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