UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Westerly, RI, USA

Object flying along side an airplane disappeared into the clouds, emerged 5 minutes later and flew southwest.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-03-16
Where
Westerly, RI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10
Geo
41.378, -71.827 · exact
Slug
circle-over-westerly-ri-2010-9cda37
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Westerly, RI has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 20 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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