Cranston, RI, USA
We witnessed an glowing orb, that lost altitude and Gained altitude very rapidly it also moved north and back south at will and looked
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-08-02
- Where
- Cranston, RI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.780, -71.437 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-cranston-ri-2021-cc4720
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
- This is one of 38 reports logged in Cranston, RI.
- This case is one of 15 Rhode Island reports filed in 2021.
Report
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