Thetford, VT, USA
A cluster of yellow-orange lights that formed an arched line in the sky appeared and disappeared instantly.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-20
- Where
- Thetford, VT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 52.417, 0.750 · fallback
- Slug
- other-over-thetford-vt-2005-618f24
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
- Thetford, VT has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 16 reports from Vermont.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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