CaseFormation2016
Dedham, MA, USA
No noise reported. ((anonymous report))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-29
- Where
- Dedham, MA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.242, -71.166 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-dedham-ma-2016-537213
Wave
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
- Dedham, MA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 115 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
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.