North Kingstown, RI, USA
While driving at dusk my daughter and I noticed an airplaine flying up in the sky w/ it's lights on heading in an easternly dirtection
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-21
- Where
- North Kingstown, RI, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10sec or less
- Geo
- 41.550, -71.466 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-north-kingstown-ri-1997-276299
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 17 documented reports from North Kingstown, RI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhode Island logged 5 sightings in 1997.
- Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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