CaseRectangle1970
Newport, RI, USA
A rectangular-shaped craft was reported hovering roughly half a mile above a witness in Newport, Rhode Island, in August 1970, for several minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (147 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-08-15
- Where
- Newport, RI, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 41.490, -71.313 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-newport-ri-1970-ded25e
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In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Newport, RI.
- This case is one of 2 Rhode Island reports filed in 1970.
- Rectangle craft made up 2.3% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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