CaseOther2020

Bridgewater, VT, USA

Extremely bright, large crescent-shaped object hovered in southeast sky for 30 minutes before sunrise. ((NUFORC Note: Mars?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-03-18
Where
Bridgewater, VT, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
43.588, -72.625 · exact
Slug
other-over-bridgewater-vt-2020-64e3cc
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Bridgewater, VT.
  • This case is one of 36 Vermont reports filed in 2020.
  • Other craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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