UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Rumford, RI, USA

1/13/17, 6:15 AM, 3 extremely bright " stars" that appeared, shone with a bright flash, and blinked off, east of the Big Dipp

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-13
Where
Rumford, RI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.845, -71.352 · exact
Slug
light-over-rumford-ri-2017-b0a8a3
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 5 reports logged in Rumford, 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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