UFOMYST
CaseSphere1952

Manville, RI, USA

Group of lights moving across sky during daylight hours.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-07-30
Where
Manville, RI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.970, -71.474 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-manville-ri-1952-f229be
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Manville, RI shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Rhode Island in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 5.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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