CaseDisk2021

Newport, RI, USA

Hovering Saucer with 3 blue/white thruster looking lights. large and undeniably visible.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-20
Where
Newport, RI, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
41.490, -71.313 · exact
Slug
disk-over-newport-ri-2021-2576e2
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…

In context

  • Newport, RI shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Rhode Island in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.