CaseTeardrop2013

Hamilton-Wenham, MA, USA

10 orange and grey teardrop shaped lights flew silently and swiftly over head and then disappeared

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-11-11
Where
Hamilton-Wenham, MA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
Slug
teardrop-over-hamilton-wenham-ma-2013-dec523
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 1 reports logged in Hamilton-Wenham, MA.
  • This case is one of 196 Massachusetts reports filed in 2013.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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