Cranston, RI, USA
There were 2 lights in the southern sky, one following the other, then a 3rd light shot from one of them and headed towards the ground.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-19
- Where
- Cranston, RI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 41.780, -71.437 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cranston-ri-2007-fce463
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
- Cranston, RI has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 14 reports from Rhode Island.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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