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
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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.