CaseTriangle2018

Hadley, MA, USA

3 separate bright white lights suddenly appeared in a triangle in upper atmosphere, and then simultaneously shut off 45 seconds.

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 (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-24
Where
Hadley, MA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.342, -72.588 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hadley-ma-2018-9b83e5
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

  • Hadley, MA has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 70 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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