Johnston, RI, USA
4 objects seen in upper atmosphere maneuvering at high speed then up out of sight!
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-29
- Where
- Johnston, RI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 41.822, -71.507 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-johnston-ri-2013-55e2af
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 15 documented reports from Johnston, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 37 sightings in 2013.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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