CaseTriangle2013

Northampton, MA, USA

Low hovering lit craft.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-03
Where
Northampton, MA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minute
Geo
42.325, -72.641 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-northampton-ma-2013-16254b
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

  • One of 15 documented reports from Northampton, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 196 sightings in 2013.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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