Dedham, MA, USA
4 lights in a row in the sky two nights in a row. Issues with electronics near these lights. Military craft present.
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-02
- Where
- Dedham, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 hours
- Geo
- 42.242, -71.166 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-dedham-ma-2016-008070
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
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Dedham, MA.
- This case is one of 115 Massachusetts reports filed in 2016.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.