CaseFormation2008
Tilton, NH, USA
shape of a w with bright orange lights with a blinding middle light
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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 (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-29
- Where
- Tilton, NH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.442, -71.589 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-tilton-nh-2008-4f9deb
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Tilton, NH.
- This case is one of 34 New Hampshire reports filed in 2008.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.