East Sandwich, MA, USA
4 rectangle bright orange lights in sky in east sandwich, lasted about 2 minutes, basically lights were in 4 corners, never saw it come
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-20
- Where
- East Sandwich, MA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 41.742, -70.452 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-east-sandwich-ma-2012-35d5ed
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
- East Sandwich, MA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Massachusetts in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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