UFOMYST
CaseSphere1978

Warwick, RI, USA

Warwick, Rhode Island Jan/Feb 1978 Red Orb

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-05
Where
Warwick, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 mins
Geo
41.700, -71.416 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-warwick-ri-1978-5d1fa3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Warwick, RI has 48 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 2 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.