CaseLight2016

South Burlington, VT, USA

6am I was taking pictures of the moon. No stars out and a little cloudy. I didn't seen anything unusual at all. I looked at photo and i

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-14
Where
South Burlington, VT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 seconds
Geo
44.467, -73.171 · exact
Slug
light-over-south-burlington-vt-2016-3540e5
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

  • South Burlington, VT shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 23 reports came from Vermont in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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