North Providence, RI, USA
On Sunday 9/1/19 approximately 2:00am, I was driving home on 146 north (not far past providence) I saw 12-15 round, bright, orange ligh
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-01
- Where
- North Providence, RI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.850, -71.466 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-north-providence-ri-2019-6dcfe8
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in North Providence, RI.
- This case is one of 33 Rhode Island reports filed in 2019.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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