CaseDisk2018

Providence, RI, USA

gray dark gray in color slowing moving across sky rotated and turned I could see some type of shining. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-03
Where
Providence, RI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
41.824, -71.413 · exact
Slug
disk-over-providence-ri-2018-3d2e6a
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…

In context

  • Providence, RI has 44 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 19 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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