Braintree, MA, USA
We witnessed blinking lights that moved rapidly in all directs and that, once "still", emitted sparks.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-03
- Where
- Braintree, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 42.204, -71.002 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-braintree-ma-2006-4c2ea1
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
- Braintree, MA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 59 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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