Rochester, NH, USA
A large black triangle with three lights that hovered around us for over 2 hours. A solid object that made no sound.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-11
- Where
- Rochester, NH, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 43.305, -70.976 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-rochester-nh-2016-4eec33
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
- This is one of 30 reports logged in Rochester, NH.
- This case is one of 52 New Hampshire reports filed in 2016.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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