CaseSphere2012

Woonsocket, RI, USA

Light TECH. that moves stuff,, OUR future [U.S.A.] will have light motion...I told you first!!!

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-05-09
Where
Woonsocket, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.003, -71.515 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-woonsocket-ri-2012-b4b66c
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Woonsocket, RI in May 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Woonsocket, RI has 24 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 49 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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