CaseLight2015

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

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  • 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
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

  • 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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