North Stonington, CT, USA
((HOAX??)) going to take out the garbage saw the ball of light flying towards me I ran back inside I thought I was going to be abducted
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2020-04-09
- Where
- North Stonington, CT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 41.441, -71.881 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-north-stonington-ct-2020-5bb17c
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
- North Stonington, CT shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 130 reports came from Connecticut in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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