Rutland, VT, USA
Bright orb witnessed moving back and forth then vanishing, by 3 people in Vermont 1/10/15 16:40
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-10
- Where
- Rutland, VT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.611, -72.973 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rutland-vt-2015-add068
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…
Local cluster
Rutland, VT logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2015.
In context
- One of 23 documented reports from Rutland, VT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Vermont logged 47 sightings in 2015.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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