Lowell, MA, USA
A metallic balloon shaped object was hovering over I-95 north bound towards lowell Ma
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-11-13
- Where
- Lowell, MA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 42.633, -71.316 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lowell-ma-2019-7eb188
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 shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 117 reports came from Massachusetts in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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