CaseLight2021

Osterville, MA, USA

I saw this flashing light in the north east horizon that was flashing in and out and darting across the sky.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-10-14
Where
Osterville, MA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
41.628, -70.387 · exact
Slug
light-over-osterville-ma-2021-ae580c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 4 documented reports from Osterville, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 69 sightings in 2021.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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