Leominster, MA, USA
Very large metallic craft hovered then darted away at very high speed towards the sun. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-11
- Where
- Leominster, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.525, -71.760 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-leominster-ma-2016-641291
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
- One of 15 documented reports from Leominster, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 115 sightings in 2016.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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