Bristol, CT, USA
Thursday, August 6,2009 at 9:10 p.m. over Bristol, connecticut 06010 USA, my wife and I heard a loud bang outside and my wife asked me
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-06
- Where
- Bristol, CT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.672, -72.949 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bristol-ct-2009-9ce15d
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…
In context
- Bristol, CT has 40 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 69 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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