UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Lowell, MA, USA

I saw large green shooting star/fireball. It had a long green tail. It was going really fast, from east to west, from high to low. I

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-21
Where
Lowell, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 second
Geo
42.633, -71.316 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lowell-ma-2016-283773
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Lowell, MA has 36 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 115 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

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