Brookline, MA, USA
I observed a cluster of 12 to 15 white lights shinning brite in the sky in a close formation.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-15
- Where
- Brookline, MA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 to 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.332, -71.121 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-brookline-ma-2009-b1c780
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
- Brookline, MA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 79 reports came from Massachusetts in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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