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
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
- Needham, MA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 138 reports from Massachusetts.
Report
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