Lowell, MA, USA
Many of us saw what I think might be a UFO or UFOs when I got home from dinner with my family.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Lowell, MA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- brief
- Geo
- 42.633, -71.316 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-lowell-ma-2010-5b3c87
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
- Lowell, MA has 36 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 107 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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