Cumberland, RI, USA
I saw a bright light off in the distance in MA, to my right, come out of nowhere from the sky and shoot down toward earth at an extreme
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-16
- Where
- Cumberland, RI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 41.967, -71.433 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cumberland-ri-2015-290ede
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 14 documented reports from Cumberland, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 48 sightings in 2015.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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