UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

North Providence, RI, USA

A bright light moving zig-zag formation. Not like a satellite or airplane that moves straight. Then disappeared. ((anonymous report))

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-11
Where
North Providence, RI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.850, -71.466 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-providence-ri-2016-3717a3
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

  • North Providence, RI shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 33 reports came from Rhode Island in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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