CaseDisk1956
Quonset Point, RI, USA
A witness near Quonset Point, Rhode Island reported rows of saucer-shaped lights connected by beams of light, rising straight up together, over about 20 minutes in June 1956.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (174 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-01
- Where
- Quonset Point, RI, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.590, -71.404 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-quonset-point-ri-1956-55f45c
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Quonset Point, RI.
- This case is one of 1 Rhode Island reports filed in 1956.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.