Hudson, MA, USA
I was driving in my truck doing about 75 to 80mph on the 495 north highway when I saw this large flash on light form..then shoot like a
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-11
- Where
- Hudson, MA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.392, -71.566 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-hudson-ma-2019-9b0bfd
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 6 documented reports from Hudson, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 117 sightings in 2019.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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