Woonsocket, RI, USA
Orange sphere than blinking lights to slow down craft until stopped. ((anonymous report))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 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
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.003, -71.515 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-woonsocket-ri-2012-cf2ff9
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
Woonsocket, RI logged 4 reports in the single month of May 2012.
In context
- One of 24 documented reports from Woonsocket, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 49 sightings in 2012.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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