Lowell, MA, USA
Seen over Lowell, MA, at top of Christian Hill. Not a cloud in the sky. At first we thought it was a shooting star,
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-23
- Where
- Lowell, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.633, -71.316 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-lowell-ma-2015-188131
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
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Lowell, MA.
- This case is one of 146 Massachusetts reports filed in 2015.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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