Wilmington, MA, USA
Driving north on rt. 38 in Wilmington, I looked up into the sky at an angle of about 11:00and watched 10 small oval( like an egg on its
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-28
- Where
- Wilmington, MA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute tops
- Geo
- 42.546, -71.174 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-wilmington-ma-2004-d4a8c0
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
- Wilmington, MA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 64 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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