Springfield, MA, USA
((HOAX??)) Young man and woman are awakened by a loud humming sound; they are pressed down in their bed.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2013-01-07
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-springfield-ma-2013-29b99c
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
- One of 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 196 sightings in 2013.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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