Westminster West/ Putney border, VT, USA
Hovered for about 10 minutes shifting left to right very quickly; not illuminated by lights- reflective underside making it visible.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-02
- Where
- Westminster West/ Putney border, VT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- About 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.064, -72.541 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-westminster-west-putney-border-vt-2008-f7c940
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
- Westminster West/ Putney border, VT shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Vermont in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.