CaseCircle2011

Hanover, MA, USA

More than 30 orange lights in Massachusetts

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-25
Where
Hanover, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1/2 hour
Geo
42.113, -70.812 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hanover-ma-2011-502cc0
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

  • Hanover, MA has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 106 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

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.