UFOMYST
CaseSphere1944

South Kingstown, RI, USA

This event was related to me tonight, 29 December 2008, by a carpenter who is working at my house here in South Kingstown, RI. After d

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1944-07-01
Where
South Kingstown, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.447, -71.525 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-south-kingstown-ri-1944-45caba
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1944–1945

    The Foo Fighters

    European and Pacific theaters of WWII

    Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from South Kingstown, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Rhode Island logged 1 sightings in 1944.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 4.5% during the 1940s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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