CaseRectangle1987
Exeter, RI, USA
UFO seen Christmas Eve 1987. Made sudden "L" shape turn unlike any known aircraft.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-12-24
- Where
- Exeter, RI, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.578, -71.538 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-exeter-ri-1987-785f14
In context
- Exeter, RI has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1987 brought 1 reports from Rhode Island.
- The 1980s skewed 3.2% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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