Colchester, VT, USA
Noticed a bright red light over the tree line. towards Burlington Vt. I never have seen a plane this bright so I went to look.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-06-28
- Where
- Colchester, VT, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5
- Geo
- 44.544, -73.148 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-colchester-vt-2015-77da8d
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
- Colchester, VT shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 47 reports came from Vermont in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.