CaseFormation2015
Riverside, RI, USA
Something strange in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-30
- Where
- Riverside, RI, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 41.767, -71.365 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-riverside-ri-2015-1045c7
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Riverside, RI.
- This case is one of 48 Rhode Island reports filed in 2015.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.