CaseTeardrop2016

Rochester, NH, USA

I caught it on my camera, its shooting around all different directions, almost looks like a dragon fly but a UFO sized one, it's changi

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-16
Where
Rochester, NH, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
43.305, -70.976 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-rochester-nh-2016-f5e12d
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Rochester, NH in July 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Rochester, NH has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 52 reports from New Hampshire.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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