UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

North Kingstown, RI, USA

1/23/97: Huge black triangle w/ rearguard heli, sighted over deserted Rte.1A in RI, drifts overhead & out to Sea.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-23
Where
North Kingstown, RI, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.550, -71.466 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-north-kingstown-ri-1997-7b8df9
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • North Kingstown, RI shows up 17 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Rhode Island in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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