UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

North Smithfield, RI, USA

Walked outside to garage, immediately caught my eye sphere shape. Thought it was balloons at 1st because the way Sun was hitting it. Wa

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-10
Where
North Smithfield, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
40-60 seconds
Geo
41.967, -71.550 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-smithfield-ri-2015-929d1e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from North Smithfield, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Rhode Island logged 48 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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