CaseCircle2016

Brentwood, NH, USA

Orange glowing orb flame-like no sound very slow 400 feet above stayed at elevation for 4 minutes then rose and dimmed and disappeared

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-04
Where
Brentwood, NH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
42.979, -71.073 · exact
Slug
circle-over-brentwood-nh-2016-c005eb
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

  • Brentwood, NH has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 52 reports from New Hampshire.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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