CaseSphere2015

Bristol, NH, USA

Orange ball of light would move fast, and then slow down and repeat until it faded out.

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-24
Where
Bristol, NH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
43.591, -71.737 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bristol-nh-2015-88525e
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…

In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Bristol, NH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Hampshire logged 87 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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