Hopkinton, RI, USA
I went to let my dogs out and have a smoke. The moon was bright, high above my yard and the sky was clear, I could see all of the stars
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-25
- Where
- Hopkinton, RI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45+
- Geo
- 41.461, -71.778 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hopkinton-ri-2013-bc7f18
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
- Hopkinton, RI shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 37 reports came from Rhode Island in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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