Merrimack, NH, USA
Like a planet, but moved about. Not an a/c. Round, bright when magnified. Distant, hard to hold in viewfinder. ((NUFORC: Venus.PD))
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-11
- Where
- Merrimack, NH, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 MINUTES
- Geo
- 42.865, -71.493 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-merrimack-nh-2004-8cca18
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
- Merrimack, NH has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 19 reports from New Hampshire.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.