Franklin, MA, USA
I arrived home with my children at approximately 8:25 P.M. and noticed a bright star in the north. At first I thought it was a bright s
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-13
- Where
- Franklin, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 min
- Geo
- 42.083, -71.397 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-franklin-ma-2004-4ae408
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
- Franklin, MA shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Massachusetts in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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