Sphere over Little Compton, RI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was a gloomy rainy day. I was standing at the top of the basement stairs watching a video on my phone when I noticed this ambient golden orb the size of a thumbnail it was about 4 feet from the ground and only a foot away from me.It just hovered there and slowly drifted off to the left .
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172176). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-10-01 → 2022-10-18
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