UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1997

Johnston, RI, USA

Cube haystack shape seen a between 1997-1998 (not sure of exact date)........

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 (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-01
Where
Johnston, RI, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 min
Geo
41.822, -71.507 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-johnston-ri-1997-adba23
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Johnston, RI shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Rhode Island in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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