Mendon, MA, USA
Stationary red, blue flashing lights in sky west, southwest of Mendon MA ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the star, Sirius. 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 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
- 2005-04-16
- Where
- Mendon, MA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 42.106, -71.552 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mendon-ma-2005-504667
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 3 reports logged in Mendon, MA.
- This case is one of 61 Massachusetts reports filed in 2005.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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