CaseLight2014

Burlington, VT, USA

I was smoking a cigarette star gazing on my back porch when i noticed a star brighter than the others. Almost as soon as i looked at it

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-21
Where
Burlington, VT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
44.476, -73.212 · exact
Slug
light-over-burlington-vt-2014-d9ea7a
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

  • One of 29 documented reports from Burlington, VT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Vermont logged 37 sightings in 2014.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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