Williston (seen from; to NE), VT, USA
2 bright orange lights above horizon with possible smoke trail above them appeared stationary
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-10
- Where
- Williston (seen from; to NE), VT, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20-30 Seconds
- Geo
- 44.438, -73.068 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-williston-seen-from-to-ne-vt-2009-25e5ad
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Williston (seen from; to NE), VT.
- This case is one of 23 Vermont reports filed in 2009.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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