West Warwick, RI, USA
Jet-like roaring craft over Rhode Island...no true explanation from media.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-03
- Where
- West Warwick, RI, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 41.697, -71.522 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-west-warwick-ri-2017-15076e
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
- West Warwick, RI has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 29 reports from Rhode Island.
Report
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