CaseCircle2011
Woonsocket, RI, USA
Moved faster that a plane but, much slower than a meteor.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-18
- Where
- Woonsocket, RI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.003, -71.515 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-woonsocket-ri-2011-9cb8b1
Wave
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
- One of 24 documented reports from Woonsocket, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 20 sightings in 2011.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.