CaseFormation2005
Gorham, NH, USA
Orange V-Pattern Lights Viewed in Mountains of Northern New Hampshire
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-23
- Where
- Gorham, NH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 44.388, -71.173 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-gorham-nh-2005-28c318
Wave
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
- Gorham, NH shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 41 reports came from New Hampshire in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.