UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Springfield, MA, USA

Bright green light above the mass pike. Fell to ground then disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-23
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Seconds
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
light-over-springfield-ma-2009-6038d2
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 79 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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