Auburn, MA, USA
a white cone shape light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- Auburn, MA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 42.195, -71.836 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-auburn-ma-2009-8bf435
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 Auburn, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 79 sightings in 2009.
- Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).
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.