Triangle over Cumberland, RI
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The report, as filed
Triangular craft hovered for awhile, then shot off northward
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-01-05 → 2005-01-22
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May 5, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cumberland, RI
3 lights observed traveling north to south. The lights were yellow orange, like a flame from a fire. They appeared to be round with a haze around them so I couldn’t determine a shape. There was no sound and they seemed to be traveling at a steady rate of speed. They were following each other but were not close together. The night was overcast so they appeared to disappear once they got far enough away. The lights did not blink, they were steady, like a burning flame. As the 3rd light passed over, we lost internet connection for a brief period of time. We believe that UFO’s probably exist, but until now, we’ve never seen anything to cement that belief.
March 12, 2018 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cumberland, RI
Most were hovering in the sky. Looks like they were performing some sort of exercise. I live in Cumberland Diamond Hill Road.
October 10, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Cumberland, RI
At around 2am I laid down to sleep and noticed a bright light in the sky that should have been moving if it were an airplane or satellite. Instead, it flashed/shimmered in one spot. Sometimes the flash would be on the right side and then on the left later. It just hovered in the same spot in the sky. After about 45 minutes of watching it I finally fell asleep. Initially I thought it was a dying star but it was exponentially brighter than anything else in sky. Additionally, the flashing/shimmering wasn’t on side, then the other, not all over it.
October 10, 2017 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Cumberland, RI
At around 2am I laid down to sleep and noticed a bright light in the sky that should have been moving if it were an airplane or satellite. Instead, it flashed/shimmered in one spot. Sometimes the flash would be on the right side and then on the left later. It just hovered in the same spot in the sky. After about 45 minutes of watching it I finally fell asleep. Initially, I thought it was a dying star, but it was exponentially brighter than anything else in sky. Additionally, the flashing/shimmering wasn’t on side, then the other, not all over it.
July 20, 2017 · 4:35 AM · FLASH
Cumberland, RI
We see many planes (commercial flights, small planes, helicopters) day and night because it is a much used flight path and our view is perfect. Most planes make a turn towards T.F. Green and a few go over our house and head towards Logan Airport. At that point there was a bright flash of light much closer to us than the plane we were watching. There were a total of 4 flashes each 1 second apart, the sighting lasted only 4 seconds then it was out of our area of sight. The flashes stayed in a straight line across the sky. The 1st bright flash of white light got our attention. The 2nd flash, one second later appeared in the sky an impossible distance from the first flash, and so on for the 3rd and 4th flashes. The distance traveled in the one second between flashes is impossible to get our minds around. We did not see an actual object creating the flashes. In between the flashes of light there was no object visible in the sky. Almost like it was invisible except for the bright white flashes. The time and distance were the same each time. One second with a "measured giant jump" each 1 second apart traveling in a straight horizontal line. It took only 4 flashes and 4 seconds to cover the entire horizon within our view. As opposed to the planes we see daily, which take about 1.5 to 2 minutes to travel the same distance. Luckily we were both watching the plane before the flash of light, so we saw the sighting together. We were both a bit stunned and puzzled and after those 4 seconds, looked at each other and said, "Hey did you see that too?" We're thankful we saw this together.
October 16, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cumberland, RI
I was heading from Rhode Island toward Massachusetts on 295 on 10/16 between 7:30- 8:00 PM, when I saw a bright light off in the distance in MA, to my right, come out of nowhere from the sky and shoot down toward earth at an extremely high rate of speed. I watched it and expected to hear or feel something when it impacted thinking it may have been a meteor. But there was nothing. It was quite a distance away; while I continued to drive, I then saw three planes flying in the general area the light appeared. They came from three different directions. Then all disappeared heading in the same direction.