UFOMYST
CaseCircle2006

East Providence, RI, USA

Round flying object travelling slowly with lights around the bottom

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-12-15
Where
East Providence, RI, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 or 4 mins
Geo
41.814, -71.370 · exact
Slug
circle-over-east-providence-ri-2006-656dee
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • East Providence, RI shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Rhode Island in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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.