West Springfield, MA, USA
Large light projection flew over my home and out in front of me 40-50feet, then disappeared silently
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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- Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-09
- Where
- West Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.107, -72.620 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-west-springfield-ma-2020-bb5740
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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
- One of 10 documented reports from West Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 138 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
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