CaseUnknown2008
Nantucket, MA, USA
saw object that I thought was a plane, no noise moved too slow
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-20
- Where
- Nantucket, MA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.283, -70.099 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-nantucket-ma-2008-7d2191
Wave
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
- Nantucket, MA has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 75 reports from Massachusetts.
Report
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