UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Cumberland, RI, USA

Hovering and flashing light in night sky seen for 45 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Cappella or Venus? PD))

Report quality: Low39/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-10-10
Where
Cumberland, RI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2:45
Geo
41.967, -71.433 · exact
Slug
light-over-cumberland-ri-2017-4b6662
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Cumberland, RI.
  • This case is one of 29 Rhode Island reports filed in 2017.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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