CaseUnknown2020

Orange, MA, USA

I was staring at The Polaris star last night and noticed a craft, with red and white lights that I originally thought was an aircraft b

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-16
Where
Orange, MA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.590, -72.310 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-orange-ma-2020-e55156
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

  • Orange, MA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 138 reports from Massachusetts.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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