Charlton, MA, USA
I was driving west on i90 and I saw a light in the sky I took out my phone and took a few shots it was 6:30 in the morning I have no cl
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-23
- Where
- Charlton, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.136, -71.970 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-charlton-ma-2013-a3afa1
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
- Charlton, MA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 196 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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