Manville, RI, USA
A witness in Manville, Rhode Island reported a group of lights moving across the sky during daylight hours, observed for about 10 seconds in July 1952.
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 (151 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-07-30
- Where
- Manville, RI, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.970, -71.474 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-manville-ri-1952-f229be
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
United States, focal point Washington D.C.
The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…
In context
- Manville, RI shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Rhode Island in 1952.
- In the 1950s, 5.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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