North Adams, MA, USA
Star like object flashing colors and hovering for over an hour in one stop. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-10-19
- Where
- North Adams, MA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 42.701, -73.109 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-north-adams-ma-2008-426941
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
- North Adams, MA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Massachusetts in 2008.
Report
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