CaseChevron2010

South Kingstown, RI, USA

Jet-like craft with loud noise and strange lights in over southern RI

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-01-20
Where
South Kingstown, RI, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.447, -71.525 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-south-kingstown-ri-2010-53459c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of South Kingstown, RI in January 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • South Kingstown, RI has 33 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 20 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.1% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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