Somersworth, NH, USA
I went outside for a smoke at about 2:30 am on 1/30/17. I was looking at the stars as usual and pointing out the planets to myself when
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-30
- Where
- Somersworth, NH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 43.262, -70.865 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-somersworth-nh-2017-052d73
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
- Somersworth, NH shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from New Hampshire in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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