Upton/Millbury, MA, USA
4 lights spreading out from one point, rotating 45 degrees, then meeting again. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-12-25
- Where
- Upton/Millbury, MA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.175, -71.602 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-upton-millbury-ma-2015-89fbbd
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
- Upton/Millbury, MA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 146 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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