CaseSphere2009
Bristol, CT, USA
round, 3 orange lights in front, silent, slow,
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-06
- Where
- Bristol, CT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.672, -72.949 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bristol-ct-2009-2555b2
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
- One of 40 documented reports from Bristol, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 69 sightings in 2009.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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