Triangle over Fitchburg, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Massive Black Triangle With 3 big red dots with a few small white dots in the back, blinking blue dot in the center
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170200). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-06-29 → 2016-07-16
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December 8, 2023 4:47 p.m. Driving home from work I saw a bright, warm white light above downtown Fitchburg. The sky was overcast and it was the only light in the sky. It immediately struck me as odd as it appeared to be in front of the clouds, stationary and was not blinking. I was driving on 2A heading towards ChapelBarker Hill graveyard. My route took me around the graveyard where I lost sight of it. Headed northeast down Laurel st, I saw it again as I stopped at the stop light. I then noticed the light was slowly moving southwest towards me. I continued to glance at the light as I drove past the shopping center southeast down Water St. At the next stop light, I could still see it through the drivers window which was rolled down. I couldn't hear anything except the noise of the traffic. It was stationary again and I could see what looked like a smaller and much fainter light descending from the main light. It was very hard to make out and looked like it was almost twinkling. I lost sight of the twinkling light when the bigger light started slowly moving, southwest still, over my car. I thought I could just barely see a circular silhouette around the light. Then the stop light turned green and I took a lefthand turn to cross fifth st. bridge, driving the opposite direction the light in the sky was heading. I lost track of it and pulled over on fulton st. to try to find it again out of my passenger window, but it was completely gone. I’ve been into the UAP topic seriously since 2020. I’ve seen starlink, iss, planes and drones. This did not have any normal characteristics of any of these except maybe a drone however it appeared much larger than what a drone would be.
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October 28, 2018 · 4:00 PM · OVAL
Fitchburg, MA
Light by light, it disappeared as we got closer and was gone by the time we drove by. We were driving when I saw a bunch of bright red lights hovering over a building, they formed a huge oval that was slightly tilted. It only lasted about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
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Fitchburg, MA
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Fitchburg, MA
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