South Gardner, MA, USA
Three bright yellow vertical lights at night in the sky near South Gardner.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-07
- Where
- South Gardner, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.558, -71.979 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-south-gardner-ma-2016-162bfd
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 1 documented reports from South Gardner, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 115 sightings in 2016.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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