CaseCylinder2016

Epping, NH, USA

On March 27, at 9:30pm, while sitting on my deck in Epping, NH, I was suddenly illuminated by a bright flash in the NW sky.

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: 1080s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-27
Where
Epping, NH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
18 minutes
Geo
43.033, -71.074 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-epping-nh-2016-8e2706
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

  • Epping, NH shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 52 reports came from New Hampshire in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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