CaseLight2001
Smithfield, RI, USA
First noticed what appeared to be a very brilliant star in the western sky, reddish colored, like the planet Mars might appear. After
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-15
- Where
- Smithfield, RI, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.922, -71.550 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-smithfield-ri-2001-e2ed35
In context
- Smithfield, RI shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Rhode Island in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.