Norton, MA, USA
Flying wing shaped aircfaft silently flew overhead, no jet trail, no lights during broad daylight in Massachusetts.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-08
- Where
- Norton, MA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 41.967, -71.187 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-norton-ma-2012-0ba357
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
- Norton, MA shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Massachusetts in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.