Ludlow, MA, USA
A strange big oval shaped bright light hovering in the sky for about ten minutes before slowly moving away and then disappearing
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-20
- Where
- Ludlow, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.160, -72.476 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-ludlow-ma-2012-88a5ec
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
- Ludlow, MA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Massachusetts in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.