CaseTriangle2020

Needham, MA, USA

Triangle/chevron shaped stationary craft still in the sky and than shot up out of the sky and disappeared

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-08
Where
Needham, MA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
42.283, -71.233 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-needham-ma-2020-9c68fa
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

  • Needham, MA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 138 reports came from Massachusetts in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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