Woods Hole, MA, USA
A wedge-shaped formation of lights silently passed overhead where lights in the formation switched position before fading from sight.
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: 32s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-29
- Where
- Woods Hole, MA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 20-45 seconds
- Geo
- 41.527, -70.673 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-woods-hole-ma-2017-31feb9
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
- Woods Hole, MA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Massachusetts in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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