CaseChanging2016

West Topsham, VT, USA

Several orange lights flying separately and in triangular formation, accompanied by a loud roaring noise.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-03-03
Where
West Topsham, VT, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
44.115, -72.312 · exact
Slug
changing-over-west-topsham-vt-2016-3b9f9a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 2 documented reports from West Topsham, VT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Vermont logged 23 sightings in 2016.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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