East Greenwich, RI, USA
I witnessed a UFO which may be of the Lazar"Sport Model" variety when I was leaving work to drive home.The UFO was circular in shap
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-29
- Where
- East Greenwich, RI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.660, -71.456 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-east-greenwich-ri-1997-b094c9
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in East Greenwich, RI.
- This case is one of 5 Rhode Island reports filed in 1997.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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