UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

North Smithfield, RI, USA

I was looking up at the stars and all of the sudden a giant circle was right in front of my eyes. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
North Smithfield, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
>1 minute
Geo
41.967, -71.550 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-smithfield-ri-2009-29bb60
Wave

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from North Smithfield, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Rhode Island logged 17 sightings in 2009.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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