Thornton, MA, USA
30-50 white star, non-pulsating, looking lights lined straight in a row, moving W. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-05-24
- Where
- Thornton, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.868, -104.972 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-thornton-ma-2019-0e2927
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
- Thornton, MA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 117 reports came from Massachusetts in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.