Worcester, MA, USA
I saw a white light that I thought was a flare shoot up from the earth, hover, turn white to red, circle, then shoot off into the sky.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-01
- Where
- Worcester, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 42.263, -71.802 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-worcester-ma-2020-f2cb3a
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 57 documented reports from Worcester, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 138 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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