Colchester, VT, USA
I saw an extremely bright light traveling in a perfectly straight line from West to East.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-16
- Where
- Colchester, VT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 44.544, -73.148 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-colchester-vt-2007-c22d46
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
- Colchester, VT shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from Vermont in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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