Light over North Kingstown, RI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Background info: Approx 1 week ago, I noticed a bright steady light about the brightness of a medium star traveling north to south approximately 45 degrees above the horizon initially. Thought it might be a satelite, but object then made a 90-degree turn to the west, in the only way I know to describe it is 1" from my thumb to index finger. Tonight's sighting: Saw same brightness object travelling east to west in the sky at about 80 degrees above the southwest horizon in a straight track at 6:09 am. (I was standing with my neck completely bent back to look up). The object made a 90-degree turn soon after and then dimmed to nothing approximately 20 seconds later. Judging distance and speed of object, the velocity and turn radius seemed impossible for high flying plane. Hopefully my unscientific explanation makes sense. I'll keep an eye out closer now!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116422). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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July 2, 2022 · 5:05 PM · DIAMOND
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If you look at the image, below the object you can see air that looks oddly affected by the object, like a desert heat movie effect. The object did not move in the small time we viewed it, as we could not just stop our vehicle on the bridge. There was absolutely nothing else around it or attached to it so it makes no sense as to how it could just be hovering thousands of feet in the air. Far too large to be a drone.
May 16, 2021 · 12:05 AM · CIGAR
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February 23, 2020 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
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The object was a big ball of light and above the road. I saw this same object with a friend driving in north smithfield a different part of the state at the exact same hours at 1:00 AM and it's yhe second time within 4 months seen by someone else other then me which is the weird part that freaks me out. Only seems to be seen while driving home because I go to my friends house every weekend to watch sports and have to drive home at 1 am. Object fazes into a ball of light around 8 or stories above the highway and flies at a stalkish slightly faster speed then the car and after 5 seconds fazes out of visibility and disapears. Goes in a really odd looking super straight line that looks unreal. No other concerning observations about the object rather then it keeps appearing around the state at a similar height around 1 am only when almost no one is on the roads.
December 31, 2019 · 7:18 PM · OTHER
North Kingstown, RI
We were at the docks over by Wickford marina driving our children around to get them to fall asleep. Because the way the orbs moved and the fact they looked like a dart like object in the sky we stopped to watch the two vehicles until they dissapeared at about 10,000 feet. They moved in a jagged path which was the most remarkable part of the sighting. Zig zagging at about 7-8000 feet above Quonset. Then speeding off out East at a remarkable speed.
November 2, 2015 · 11:15 PM · OTHER
North Kingstown, RI
Arrowhead shaped. We stepped outside and saw this very large light in the sky. Determined right away it wasn't a plane; there were two other planes up much higher in the sky. We watched as it approached. There was no sound coming from it. It had these red striped lights on the back and white lights flashing around the sphere shape. It traveled towards Quonset.
March 30, 2013 · 8:20 PM · UNKNOWN
North Kingstown, RI
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