Johnston, RI, USA
((HOAX??)) As my friend and I were driving home late one night, I was staring out at the window gazing at the stars when I noticed one.
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2005-06-30
- Where
- Johnston, RI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 MINUTES
- Geo
- 41.822, -71.507 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-johnston-ri-2005-c19120
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 15 documented reports from Johnston, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 16 sightings in 2005.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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