UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Richmond, RI, USA

Extremely bright orange object similar to Chinese lantern flying at rate of speed similar to aircraft in a straight trajectory from Nor

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-27
Where
Richmond, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.554, -77.460 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-richmond-ri-2020-56fdc4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Richmond, RI has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 27 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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