Light over Norwood, MA
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bright blue-white light moving to fast and then gone?
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-01-18 → 2008-02-04
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July 3, 2022 · 5:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Norwood, MA
Date: July 3, 2022 Time: 5:15 PM Location: Seen from our backyard (42.1689984 , -71.215252) while laying in a hammock. Direction: Easterly, around 54 degrees N-E. The second sighting of this object was around 60 degrees N-E (about 45 minutes later). Sun Location: Behind us Weather: Clear blue skies Witnesses: 2 (Me and my wife) We witnessed this while laying in the hammock in our backyard watching birds and planes fly by. Shape Difficult to define an exact shape, perhaps a right-angle isosceles triangle. It almost looked like a large bird at first, hovering in place as they can do in a heat vortex, but this object was larger and we couldn't reconcile its exact shape, size, and color with any bird or vehicle, especially as airplanes and jets flew across the sky at the time of this sighting. When I first noticed it, I said to my wife, "Look at that hawk way up there hovering!" but immediately second-guessed my idea that it was a hawk or large bird because it remained motionless. Color Edges appeared a bit fuzzy at first but then became sharp/more defined. Blackish, dark red while it was hovering. When moving, silver and white in color, streaking across the sky at an incredible speed. Additional notes Almost the entire time I was wearing polarized sunglasses. When I took them off, I could still see the object. With the glasses on, it lost its dark red hue and looked more charcoal than black. This object was hovering for a few minutes, staying almost motionless as a jet flew over its vicinity. When the jet moved further away, the object, in a very fast sequence, appeared to tilt or turn, then appeared cylindrical in shape, losing its black/dark red color, and like liquid-silver & white streaked across the sky with incredible velocity. The steak was only visible for a second and the object was gone. About 15 Minutes Later: A white orb, extremely high up, traveled across the sky from west to east. I could not see it without my sunglasses on. About 10 Minutes Later: Another white orb, perhaps even higher (or smaller in size), traveled across the sky in the exact same way (west to east). Both of these orbs couldn't be seen without my sunglasses on and they shared the same characteristics (constant speed, no wavering or anything, appeared solid and spherical, soft-white in color, and perhaps illuminated only by ambient light, traveling west to east). 45 Minutes later: The original object appeared again but not in the same position. Black in color this time. Hovered for a minute, then moved slowly out of sight to be obscured by our treeline. The total time was about a minute, maybe less. I'll note that both times we didn't see where this object came from.
January 18, 2022 · 5:28 PM · SPHERE
Norwood, MA
It was late in the afternoon, the sun had set when I saw this bright object flying low at a slow pace. There is an airport near my neighborhood, so I suspected it was an airplane getting ready to land. Upon closer inspection I realized that the object flying above was not making any noise/sound of any kind. When the object got closer it became obvious it was not a plane. I procured my phone from my pocket to take a picture of it. As I snapped a picture of the object it appeared to have stopped moving. I was surprised by this and then tried to get a second picture of it while it was motionless above me, but my phone started to glitch. In my haste to take another picture I started to just tap at random on my phone hoping to catch what I was seeing. I saw the object come to a complete stop and it became brighter then quickly turned in an upwards position and flew away. It arched up and over flying away from me; then suddenly before it was completely out of sight it turned sharply to the left and disappeared. Leaving an orange/yellow tail behind in its wake. The whole incident took about 1-2 minutes. This was not the first time I had seen this orb of light before, although it was the first time I was able to take a photo of it. I hadn't realized there was a video of it until I looked over my phone pics and became aware that I must of hit the video button in my haste by mistake. The video is about 3 seconds long, although the object is only in frame for about 1.5milliseconds-very fast moving orb of light! If its a man made object it was an amazing sight to see, but if it was unknown to mankind then it was incredible!! Either way what I saw was interesting and exciting to see.
July 28, 2019 · 8:30 PM · CIGAR
Norwood, MA
Later noticed that there were 3 other colorful lights in sky in a triangle formation around the main craft at maybe 3 miles equidistant. Estimate craft(?) at 2 miles up. Just sits there, no movement for hours. Definitely not a star and lights off to either side of main light unmistakable with binoculars if you hold steady enough. Location would estimate at above rt 95 Walpole or Foxboro. May be there again tonight?? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 10, 2016 · 9:30 PM · TEARDROP
Norwood, MA
While smoking outside with my mother and stepfather on the front patio. It was raining and the moon was cresect and waxing. There appeared two brilliant tear shaped crafts right along side the moon but seemed much closer to the ground. Almost like in front of the moon but at a lower altitude. Maybe about 20 000 feet. I've been a private pilot for 14 years so I have a good sense for AGL. The two craft were bright pink in color. They hovered for about 45 seconds and then simultaneously took a sharp left at 90 degrees and shot straight up out of view. Traveling at several thousands of miles per hour. They left no streak of light. They just took off. The strangest thing is, it left a smell. The whole neighborhood smelled like a sweet fruity smell for about 12 hours??? Really strange and crazy. I thought i should report. My first report ever.
March 17, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Norwood, MA
I was outside looking at the night sky when I noticed 4 round objects slowly moving southward in the sky. They were lined up equidistant from each other and initially I thought it was one larger object. They appeared to be illuminated from the bottom in a whitish light. There were no blinking lights to indicate an airplane or helicopter which I observe frequently. I did not hear any noise or sound but they may have been too far away. As they passed thru the sky the furthest light from me moved slightly away and behind the other 3 lights. At this point all four lights disappeared at the same time and did not reappear while I was watching. I frequently watch the night sky and observe the stars. I have witnessed meteors, comets, “shooting stars” , the International Space Station as while as search lights and aircraft. Whatever I witnessed was not something I could identify. I am a female my early 50s and have been in healthcare and healthcare management for nearly 25 years. I have a B.S. in Business/Healthcare Management as well as two Associate’s of Science degrees. I own my home in a suburb about 13 miles south of Boston. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 13, 2014 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Norwood, MA
Light that looked like a plane but never moved more than a little bit. White red and green lights flickering and hovering. It's been almost 30 min so far. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD