As reported

Formation over Providence, RI

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The report, as filed

I happen to look out my front door at all the colored fireworks in the air and noticed at first 5 round shaped disc shaped crafts w/4 or 5 orange lights at the bottom of same. They made no noise at all and they weren't that far, whereas I wouldn't hear the noise of a normal type craft. The formation was not totally straight. Five of them stopped for approx. 30 seconds and seemed to be observing the fireworks, then they continued to proceed south, they came from the north. They were not going at a high rate of speed either. They were at approx. 1 mile apart from each other. Then as they seemed to disappear into the clouds another one showed up and then two more. All crafts seemed to disappear into the cloudly sky. I waited to see if they would reappear for quite a while, but they did not. They weren't very far in the sky, no where near what a plane would be, yet not one noise was heard even when the fireworks stopped you still couldn't hear a thing. They also seemed to have a top to the disc shape...it was rounded. I'm unsure if I was the only one who saw these crafts but I think folks were more interested in the various colors in the sky which the crafts also seemed intereted in too.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120023). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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