UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Pawtucket, RI, USA

An object producing a large bright orange glow could be seen in the clear night sky for about one minute. It seemed to hover over us in

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-20
Where
Pawtucket, RI, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
41.879, -71.383 · exact
Slug
light-over-pawtucket-ri-2012-a4b195
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…

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In context

  • Pawtucket, RI shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 49 reports came from Rhode Island in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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