Westerly, RI, USA
We were sitting in the back yard by the fire pit talking. It was a clear night sky. After about an hour, I happened to look up and saw
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-10
- Where
- Westerly, RI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 12 seconds
- Geo
- 41.378, -71.827 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-westerly-ri-2021-686143
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 13 documented reports from Westerly, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 15 sightings in 2021.
- Triangle sightings ran at 6.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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