Wakefield, NH, USA
Bright white 5 -pointed object surrounded by hazy/cloud, travelled SW to N, ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-08-31
- Where
- Wakefield, NH, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 43.568, -71.030 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-wakefield-nh-2004-3c5ffc
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Wakefield, NH.
- This case is one of 19 New Hampshire reports filed in 2004.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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