Methuen, MA, USA
3 red flashing triangles, 1 ball white light ,objects hovered then darted zig zag across sky appeared to chase white ball 2-3 minutes
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-28
- Where
- Methuen, MA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.726, -71.191 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-methuen-ma-2005-bbd999
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
- Methuen, MA shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 61 reports came from Massachusetts in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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