CaseCone2008
Newport, RI, USA
((HOAX??)) 4 cigar shaped craft hovering over newport
Report quality: Low28/100
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
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-08-20
- Where
- Newport, RI, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 10mins
- Geo
- 41.490, -71.313 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-newport-ri-2008-c28ca9
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 16 documented reports from Newport, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 17 sightings in 2008.
- Cone sightings ran at 0.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.4%).
Report
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