Chicopee, MA, USA
2 slow, silent lights 1 mile away from WARB; followed quickly by 2 black military helicopters.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-17
- Where
- Chicopee, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.149, -72.608 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-chicopee-ma-2016-175c4c
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
- Chicopee, MA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 115 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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