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
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: 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
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…
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 daysReport
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