West Springfield, MA, USA
I reside on a small hillside location that opens up the view at night…So my view other than a few trees is unobstructed.On the nigh
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-26
- Where
- West Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 42.107, -72.620 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-west-springfield-ma-2010-a840d1
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 107 sightings in 2010.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).
Report
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