UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Riverside, RI, USA

UFO EXPERIENCE (PHENOMENA) TUESDAY JANUARY 18, 1977

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 864000s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-01-18
Where
Riverside, RI, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 days
Geo
41.767, -71.365 · exact
Slug
oval-over-riverside-ri-1977-57a1e3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Riverside, RI.
  • This case is one of 3 Rhode Island reports filed in 1977.
  • Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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