West Springfield, MA, USA
From the parking lot of jj's soft serve looking into the sky towards agawam, I saw a fireball with an orange tail very distinctly. Ther
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-07
- Where
- West Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.107, -72.620 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-west-springfield-ma-2014-fee2b7
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
- West Springfield, MA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Massachusetts in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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