UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2009

Dartmouth, MA, USA

I notice a bright eye shaped light with a skirt or almost comet like. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Dartmouth, MA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 min
Geo
38.363, -98.646 · fallback
Slug
teardrop-over-dartmouth-ma-2009-3fee6a
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…

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In context

  • Dartmouth, MA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 79 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

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