Charlestown, RI, USA
Heard a power down of an engine in the sky with no visible object and slight home power flicker
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-10-31
- Where
- Charlestown, RI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 41.383, -71.642 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-charlestown-ri-2014-730d7c
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
- Charlestown, RI shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 38 reports came from Rhode Island in 2014.
Report
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