Bristol, RI, USA
The object appeared as three white lights and when going to look at the lights they moved so fast they appeared as white lines across t
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-03
- Where
- Bristol, RI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.677, -71.266 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-bristol-ri-2017-e6e652
Part of a wave
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
- One of 6 documented reports from Bristol, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 29 sightings in 2017.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
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.