West Brattleboro, VT, USA
we saw a bright cigar shaped object fly overhead. it was moving faster than an airplane does.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-26
- Where
- West Brattleboro, VT, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5:00
- Geo
- 42.856, -72.603 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-west-brattleboro-vt-2017-f296ff
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
- West Brattleboro, VT shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 19 reports came from Vermont in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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