CaseLight2004

Matunuck, RI, USA

12-15 golden-white lights equally spaced, unmoving, about a mile from the shore out in the ocean

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-06
Where
Matunuck, RI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
41.378, -71.546 · exact
Slug
light-over-matunuck-ri-2004-d63a02
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

  • Matunuck, RI has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 19 reports from Rhode Island.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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