Portsmouth, NH, USA
My husband went outside for a smoke just before 8 pm. He banged on the window from outside (I was in the living room)to get me to come
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-12
- Where
- Portsmouth, NH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.077, -70.758 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portsmouth-nh-2011-0ac268
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
- One of 20 documented reports from Portsmouth, NH in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Hampshire logged 33 sightings in 2011.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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