CaseSphere1997

Woodstock, CT, USA

Bright, fast low flying object crossed field of view at close range during drive at night

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-15
Where
Woodstock, CT, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
41.948, -71.974 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-woodstock-ct-1997-25d945
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Woodstock, CT shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Connecticut in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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