Fitchburg, MA, USA
while taking my new puppy out to the bathroom i was looking to the southern sky and saw 3 lights. all alternating in brightness. i know
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-11
- Where
- Fitchburg, MA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- undr 5 min
- Geo
- 42.583, -71.802 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-fitchburg-ma-2009-39c822
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
- Fitchburg, MA shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 79 reports came from Massachusetts in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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