NUFORC Sighting 159810

Occurred: 2020-09-06 19:40 Local
Reported: 2020-10-07 11:31 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Marblehead, MA, USA

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Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Bright white light with glare with very small red light at lower right.It was in night sky at approx 25000k ft or higher.Planes landing at Boston Logan airport were at approx 5000 k ft. maybe 2 miles off beach.The ufo was about 1 mile off beach.the 2 lights traveled in a extremely compressed elliptical pattern in a counter clockwise rotation.Left to right maybe a half mile to a mile long path.It drifted through this rotation slowly and gently deviated from a linear path. like a helicopter in some wind. It made no sound.After 20 min the 2 lights started to turn off then on at irregular intervals 2 or 3 seconds long to up 7 or 8 seconds long.Orientation of the 2 lights remained the same.the lights turned on and off instantly ,no dimming etc..its speed and travel during "off" intervals remained constant.during one rotation at he most left hand point it suddenly "shot" in a perfectly straight line to the farthes right hand side, in maybe ! a half second. Just slower than when it would have appeared to blur or be a streak of light.It then proceeded to return to its normal rotation,including erratic turning off of lights.a few minutes later Marblehead police showed up in the beach parking lot and parked with blue lights on to shoo away the last beach goers cars as it was after dark.I assume a nightly ritual.I left and did not see it depart.



Posted 2020-12-23

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