Orleans, MA, USA
In the SSE sky (151 degrees), an intense light that appears to be a star, but it seems MUCH brighter. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-11-29
- Where
- Orleans, MA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 1-4 hours
- Geo
- 41.790, -69.990 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-orleans-ma-2014-f15b4e
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
- Orleans, MA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Massachusetts in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.