CaseUnknown2011
Salem, NH, USA
Bright star-like object/ light fades into sky rapidly.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-09
- Where
- Salem, NH, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 42.788, -71.201 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-salem-nh-2011-939f63
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
- Salem, NH shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from New Hampshire in 2011.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.