Lowell, MA, USA
Bright white spherical light surrounded by flashing lights in pattern of red, blue, green. ((NUFORC Note: Planet/star in E sky? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-09-25
- Where
- Lowell, MA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.633, -71.316 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lowell-ma-2012-561d49
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
- Lowell, MA has 36 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 161 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.