CaseCircle1982
Smithfield, RI, USA
lights were flashing and I thought to myself "there are no towers here".
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-10-15
- Where
- Smithfield, RI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 41.922, -71.550 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-smithfield-ri-1982-b1778f
In context
- Smithfield, RI has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1982 brought 3 reports from Rhode Island.
- The 1980s skewed 8.2% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.