CaseUnknown2020

Needham, MA, USA

Two black objects flying high, steadily moving apart but in tandem, just below cloud line dipping in & out of clouds then disappearing

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-17
Where
Needham, MA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
42.283, -71.233 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-needham-ma-2020-dac995
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 has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 138 reports from Massachusetts.

Report

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