Braintree, VT, USA
Craft with 5 rectangular openings that emitted white light seen in Braintree sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))
Report quality: Low11/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-12-27
- Where
- Braintree, VT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.204, -71.002 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-braintree-vt-2007-1f1cbd
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…
Local cluster
December 2007 was a busy month for Braintree, VT: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Braintree, VT.
- This case is one of 22 Vermont reports filed in 2007.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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