Coventry, RI, USA
It was night and we all saw a hugh silver highly shiny circle craft not more than 100 feet away from us it was an incredible thing to
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-28
- Where
- Coventry, RI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Approx.20 mins
- Geo
- 41.700, -71.683 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-coventry-ri-1966-e2a0e0
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Coventry, RI shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Rhode Island in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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