Pelham, NH, USA
Three orange lights lifted through the tree line and stacked atop one another in a line. They hovered for a handful of seconds and in
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-21
- Where
- Pelham, NH, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.735, -71.325 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-pelham-nh-2017-9b0e36
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Pelham, NH.
- This case is one of 53 New Hampshire reports filed in 2017.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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