Tewksbury, MA, USA
On 495 N, caught sight of two unusually bright lights as I was sitting in the front passenger seat on the ride home.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-09
- Where
- Tewksbury, MA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.611, -71.234 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-tewksbury-ma-2016-a53586
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
- Tewksbury, MA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 115 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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