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

  • 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

  • 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

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