Newport, RI, USA
Bright orange ball, in western sky. Then disappeared. Near Orion's belt.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-25
- Where
- Newport, RI, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 41.490, -71.313 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-newport-ri-2017-e1253a
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Newport, RI.
- This case is one of 29 Rhode Island reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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