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
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
- 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 daysReport
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