Sheffield, MA, USA
Two groups of orange diamond shaped lights moving very slowly (7 total diamonds) independently of each other and gone within 3 mins.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-25
- Where
- Sheffield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.110, -73.355 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-sheffield-ma-2016-68ea5f
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
- Sheffield, MA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 115 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
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.