NUFORC Reports for State RI

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	09/18/1995 18:40	N. Kingston	RI	USA		Young man from Univ. of RI calls to report seeing small dot in sky that "does loop-dee-loops, blinks." Had little tail behind it.	09/18/1995
Open	10/02/1995 10:15	N. Providence	RI	USA		Man witnesses "small white dot, that came out of clouds." Was slow-moving, white, w/ "red on tail."	10/02/1995
Open	09/30/1995 13:30	N. Providence	RI	USA		Man reports seeing cluster of 3 objects "like white balloons" pacing airliner in N sky. Objs. disappear, return. Change color,shape.	10/02/1995
Open	06/29/1996 22:00	East Providence	RI	USA	Light	Very bright white obj. changes shape from circle to oval. 1/3 apparent diam of moon at closest approach. Blinking lights at top.	06/30/1996
Open	01/29/1997 23:15	East Greenwich	RI	USA	Disk	I witnessed a UFO which may be of the Lazar"Sport Model" variety when I was leaving work to drive home. The UFO was circular in shap	01/30/1997
Open	06/29/1996 21:00	East Providence	RI	USA	light	A large white pulsating light	05/15/1997
Open	12/01/1997 00:00	Warwick	RI	USA	Circle	I was watching Deep Space Nine which airs at 12pm when a unusual bright object caught my eye I quickly got up and looked out my front w	12/02/1997
Open	11/21/1997 17:00	North Kingstown	RI	USA	Triangle	While driving at dusk my daughter and I noticed an airplaine flying up in the sky w/ it's lights on heading in an easternly dirtection	12/08/1997
Open	01/29/1998 14:00	Coventry	RI	USA	Disk	Shiny metal ship with row of blinking red lights. Classic saucer shape w/ dome.	02/03/1998
Open	05/15/1979 01:00	Wordens Pond Road	RI	USA	Disk	A bright light appeared over the trees while driving home and changed colors soon after that,.	06/14/1998
Open	09/22/1998 16:18	Portsmouth	RI	USA	Egg	Amber/gold rising from tree level 45 deg up. Fast and accelerating. Dissaperaed behind tree branch. Very bright.	09/22/1998
Open	09/26/1998 00:00	Warwick	RI	USA	Circle	Heard on AM 630 WPRO art bell,ufos were spotted.Went out w/ portable radio saw a big bright light an what appeared to be a comet.	09/29/1998
Open	10/15/1998 18:00	Warwick	RI	USA	Other	Bright flat object moved upwards and disapeared behind cloads.	10/18/1998
Open	09/01/1996 22:30	Wakefield	RI	USA	Circle	ball of light in sky. stayed hovering above the house, moved to trees. then vanished about 15 min later.	01/21/1999
Open	08/01/1964 20:00	Charlestown	RI	USA	Light	While camping at the Burlingame State Park, Charlestown, RI, in August of 1964, my friend, Tommy, and I were looking over the pond at t	01/23/1999
Open	02/15/1999 19:00	Hopkington	RI	USA	Triangle	At 1900 hours on the evening of 02Feb.1999, I spotted a triangular craft moving slowly and silently at about 100 feet. This was in the	02/20/1999
Open	02/20/1999 23:40	Hope Valley	RI	USA	Triangle	Another sighting of the triangular craft with logo.	02/21/1999
Open	08/16/1999 08:30	Woonsocket	RI	USA		Sighting Happened: Made front page headlines of the Woonsocket Call in Woonsocket Rhode Island. August 26, 1999 edition Article in news	08/27/1999
Open	02/28/2000 21:30	Charlestown	RI	USA	Light	Light over submarine base, Groton, CT.	03/04/2000
Open	03/23/2000 19:30	Providence	RI	USA	Rectangle	On March 23, 2000 I was looking at the Big Dipper when one of the stars near the Big Dipper blinked then i saw dull orange lights comin	03/24/2000
Open	03/31/2000 05:05	Charlestown	RI	USA	Disk	Glowing orange shaped like an end view of airplane wing.	04/01/2000
Open	07/14/2000 02:30	Pasquag	RI	USA	Circle	it was 40 yards in diameter round had to bright white lights in the front and back to flashing lights on each side that randomly chang	07/20/2000
Open	06/22/2000 21:30	Providence (On the coastline, SSW of)	RI	USA	Egg	An egg shaped object passed in close proximity of my aircraft.	08/06/2000
Open	08/25/2000 21:05	Hopkinton	RI	USA	Light	Unexplained light	08/25/2000
Open	01/05/1978 00:00	Warwick	RI	USA	Orb	Warwick, Rhode Island Jan/Feb 1978 Red Orb	09/14/2000
Open	09/01/2000 22:35	South County	RI	USA	Other	Black helicopter sightings over Southern Rhode Island.	10/01/2000
Open	10/08/2000 16:00	West Warwick	RI	USA	Formation	12 White Circles stationary in different formations for 10 to 15 min.	10/13/2000
Open	11/15/1998 21:00	Cranston	RI	USA	Light	i was in a car with my mother driving down phenix ave. i saw a bright orangish light in the sky i looked up and it was moving slowwly b	11/02/2000
Open	01/17/2001 23:22	West Warwick	RI	USA	Circle	Large, circular object with a ring of flashing red and white lights zigzag in night sky.	01/18/2001
Open	01/28/2001 09:30	East Providence	RI	USA	Other	2 VERY BRIGHTLY lit craft were observed flying in clear, sunny skies, and one became stationary; both were at high altitude.	01/29/2001
Open	06/18/1993 20:45	Block Island	RI	USA	Other	Time loss and multiple objects seen on Island of coast of Rhode Island, USA.	02/06/2001
Open	06/08/1998 21:00	Newport	RI	USA	Light	Clear night+high visability,2 yellow lights,even shading,no vertical movement,close proximatey,very long visual time	02/07/2001
Open	03/20/2001 19:30	Portsmouth	RI	USA	Chevron	Chevron shaped object seen in Rhode Island sky on night of Vernal Equinox.	03/21/2001
Open	08/15/1976 22:30	Weekapaug	RI	USA	Formation	Three globular lights in a tight triangular formation passed east to west at low altitude	05/06/2001
Open		Charlestown	RI	USA	Disk	BOTH TIEMS OCCUR IN SPRING SUMMER MONTHS.	06/27/2001
Open	07/04/2001 21:10	Narragansett	RI	USA	Rectangle	AT dusk, while watching fireworks displays in the area, we were setting off a few fireworks on a cliff by the ocean shore. We observed	07/04/2001
Open	07/15/2001 04:30	Smithfield	RI	USA	Light	First noticed what appeared to be a very brilliant star in the western sky, reddish colored, like the planet Mars might appear. After	07/18/2001
Open	07/29/2001 21:00	Interstate 95	RI	USA	Triangle	Still triangle with 3 points of light	08/02/2001
Open	07/30/2001 22:00	Jamestown	RI	USA	Light	Object resembling airplane light blinked in random patterns, moved strangely, then very quickly for a sec., turned red and dissappeared	08/02/2001
Open	09/06/2001 22:45	Lincoln	RI	USA	Disk	The whole bottom was a bright white light and around the perimeter was a single strip of colored blinking lights.	09/08/2001
Open	11/11/2001 23:40	Cumberland	RI	USA	Triangle	On the evening of Nov 11th I was in my backyard with my dog and noticed how beautiful and clear the sky was. When I looked to my left	11/12/2001
Open	02/09/2002 13:30	Barrington	RI	USA	Fireball	My wife and I were on the East Bay Bike Path near Barrrington RI where we had just stopped riding for a moment. I was looking down and	02/18/2002
Open	03/17/2002 20:30	Richmond	RI	USA	Light	A light followed me home and then dissapeared!	03/26/2002
Open	05/06/1999 04:30	Cranston	RI	USA	Egg	It flew over the highway	04/03/2002
Open	07/06/1999 00:00	Cranston	RI	USA	Egg	A silvery egg-shaped craft is seen over a highway.	04/03/2002
Open	04/10/2002 09:00	Coventry	RI	USA	Formation	It was scary!	04/10/2002
Open	06/25/2002 22:00	Westerly	RI	USA	Light	traveling at fast speeds as high as the stars on a clear night then gone out of sight	07/25/2002
Open	11/28/2002 05:00	Cumberland	RI	USA	Disk	Disk Shaped Revolving Lights in the Sky	11/29/2002
Open	01/24/1974 22:00	Pawtucket	RI	USA	Disk	R.I. sphere shaped object landed on flat top three door garage. 1974 .the beams still show cracks that developed from the weight	01/24/2003
Open	08/15/2001 02:30	Bristol	RI	USA	Unknown	Dark shape with burnt orange glow near Bristol RI	03/11/2003
Open	03/16/2003 21:00	Portsmouth	RI	USA	Fireball	Vary large glowing object with a red blinking light beneath the bright round yellow/orange glowing light	03/18/2003
Open	10/29/1990 20:45	Burlingame State Park	RI	USA	Other	Small airborne, manta-shaped object observed from a closest distance of ~15 feet for around 6 seconds by two reliable observers.	04/28/2003
Open	07/19/2003 22:10	Scituate	RI	USA	Oval	while at Seagrave (Amateur Astronomy) Observatory on Peeptoad Road, Scituate,Rhode Island,noticed on the western horizon a turquoise br	07/19/2003
Open	08/21/2003 21:29	Atlantic Ocean	RI	USA	Unknown	Ufo sighting 17 miles into the atlantic ocean	09/04/2003
Open	10/03/2003 12:50	Coventry	RI	USA	Formation	a triangle formation of crafts	10/03/2003
Open	10/23/2003 10:15	South Kingstown	RI	USA	Unknown	Loud explosion heard along southern Rhode Island coast.	10/23/2003
Open	10/31/2003 22:00	Wakefield	RI	USA	Triangle	Large triangular object flying fairly low over Route 1 in wakefield Rhode Island on Halloween. 4 large white lights.	11/01/2003
Open	01/18/2004 12:30	Glocester	RI	USA	Teardrop	Small black object moving through woods.	01/18/2004
Open	02/16/2004 12:30	Interstate-95	RI	USA	Light	Bright light in sky over CT	02/16/2004
Open	09/28/1966 20:00	Coventry	RI	USA	Circle	It was night and we all saw a hugh silver highly shiny circle craft not more than 100 feet away from us it was an incredible thing to	02/22/2004
Open	03/15/2004 19:44	Harrisville	RI	USA	Light	light shoots straight arcross sky in about 5 seconds	03/15/2004
Open	03/15/2004 19:30	West Warwick	RI	USA	Egg	IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT AND A EGG SHAPED OBJECT WITH A LUMUNOUS GLOW BEHIND IT WENT HORIZONTALLY ACROSS THE SKY FROM WEST TO EAST	03/15/2004
Open	04/12/1979 22:00	East Providence	RI	USA	Chevron	V shaped (Chevron shaped ) Craft appeared to just clear the top of the Water Tower	04/01/2004
Open	07/02/1965 22:30	Narragansett	RI	USA	Egg	Golden egg chased by navy fighters. THe egg got away. 1965 New England	04/10/2004
Open	07/15/2003 00:30	West Greenwich, East Greenwich, West Warwick, Warwick	RI	USA	Disk	Craft follows our car up the highway for at least 10 minutes then takes off when we change direction and speed abruptly.	04/17/2004
Open	05/01/1976 20:00	Coventry	RI	USA	Formation	red orbs 'dancing' around a central orb	06/11/2004
Open	07/03/2004 12:30	South Kingstown	RI	USA	Cigar	Cigar shaped object flashes twice	07/10/2004
Open	01/01/1997 15:30	Johnston	RI	USA	Rectangle	Cube haystack shape seen a between 1997-1998 (not sure of exact date)........	07/22/2004
Open	01/20/2004 14:30	Cranston	RI	USA	Unknown	Loud noise like a jet engine that went off and on for an hour making strange sounds.	07/22/2004
Open	08/16/2004 21:28	Scituate	RI	USA	Light	Light, moving up down and left to right ((Possibly Jupiter??))	08/16/2004
Open	08/26/2004 22:13	Westerly	RI	USA	Triangle	black triangle over chopper and house in RI	08/27/2004
Open	08/31/2004 21:00	North Kingstown	RI	USA	Orb	blurry bar of light in western sky ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Cape Canaveral. PD))	09/02/2004
Open	09/01/2004 20:34	Providence	RI	USA	Egg	Two Oval/Egg shaped objects over Providence sky	09/02/2004
Open	09/07/2004 04:45	Providence/Warwick	RI	USA	Formation	Colorful lights seen over Providence/Warwick-did you see this? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect Venus. PD))	09/07/2004
Open	06/11/1981 18:00	Providence	RI	USA	Diamond	A sighting at a distance of 30 feet	09/29/2004
Open	12/02/2004 17:30	West Greenwich	RI	USA	Triangle	My co-worker told me I should report this on this site. This is the first time I have seen this. Myself and my fiend just fininshed a d	12/02/2004
Open	12/13/2004 20:35	Exeter	RI	USA	Light	unusual light in sky	12/13/2004
Open	01/02/2005 20:00	Pawtucket	RI	USA	Circle	sphere hummed overhead while flashing red and blue - slowly departed to the east, into South Attleboro / route 95	01/02/2005
Open	01/08/2005 00:15	Cumberland	RI	USA	Triangle	Triangular craft hovered for awhile, then shot off northward	01/10/2005
Open	08/20/1989 14:00	North Kingstown	RI	USA	Light	Bright light, sunny afternoon sky, Aug. '89. Stationary for 2 hrs. plus, highly visible, eerie.	01/23/2005
Open	01/23/1997 18:30	North Kingstown	RI	USA	Triangle	1/23/97: Huge black triangle w/ rearguard heli, sighted over deserted Rte.1A in RI, drifts overhead & out to Sea.	01/23/2005
Open	02/01/2005 20:30	Scituate	RI	USA	Light	Has anyone else in RI, CT or MA seen this?	02/01/2005
Open	09/15/2003 22:30	North Kingstown	RI	USA	Formation	I watch for satelites and this night I saw what appeared to be 3 flying in an irregular triangle formation in the Northeast sky at abou	02/19/2005
Open	11/15/1958 22:30	Greenville	RI	USA	Disk	Five small disk or spherical-shaped objects merging with a large saucer-shaped object observed by three whitnesses in 1958.	02/25/2005
Open	06/15/1970 19:30	CT/RI border	RI	USA	Circle	Back in 1969 or maybe 70, can't really remember the date, my wife and I were on our way to Rhode Island from Connecticut. We left in th	03/09/2005
Open	03/13/2005 23:00	Cranston	RI	USA	Triangle	At 11pm Est I was driving my girlfriend home on Phoenix Avenue toward the free way exit to travel 95 North. In the sky at first loo	03/14/2005
Open	04/14/2005 20:30	East Greenwich	RI	USA	Triangle	Triangular ship, stationary, black body, white lights on the three corners and a blinking red/white strobe dead center.	04/15/2005
Open	04/24/2005 19:45	Pawtucket	RI	USA	Changing	Unidentified falling object/light	04/24/2005
Open	06/05/2005 11:35	Lincoln	RI	USA	Other	The spheres never moved, only changed colors then faded away.	06/05/2005
Open	06/11/2004 01:50	Pawtucket	RI	USA	Other	The aircraft was hovering in the sky and then another one came and got next to it and they jsut dissapeared	06/14/2005
Open	07/04/2005 23:00	Warwick	RI	USA	Circle	Circles near Quonsett point-seen @ oakland beach Warwick Rhode island	07/12/2005
Open		Cranston	RI	USA	Circle	3 circles that were in a straight line of eachother O O O they were very bright	08/25/2005
Open	09/12/2005 22:45	Cumberland	RI	USA	Unknown	In line strobe lights over Cumberland, RI	09/12/2005
Open	10/02/2005 17:30	Providence	RI	USA	Changing	White tear drop shaped object that was visible to the naked eye that I noticed after an aircraft flew overhead.	10/02/2005
Open	10/15/1982 19:30	Smithfield	RI	USA	Circle	lights were flashing and I thought to myself "there are no towers here".	10/24/2005
Open	11/01/2005 23:00	Jamestown	RI	USA	Light	Lights in the november sky	11/03/2005
Open	11/05/2005 23:00	Cranston	RI	USA	Unknown	we were inside our house and heard several loud jet like sounds that would stop and then start up agan (exactly like the noises posted	11/06/2005
Open	11/10/2005 19:15	Kingstown	RI	USA	Light	a large light overhead going north,5 times the size of a planes'light, disapearing behind clou	11/10/2005
Open	10/15/1975 17:00	Scituate	RI	USA	Circle	Object with orange lights moves straight up in sky to nothingness.	12/06/2005
Open	12/24/2002 16:00	Providence	RI	USA	Sphere	A cold winter evening. I was walking the dog through the woods when all of the sudden I saw 3 sphere like shapes floating about 10 yds	12/14/2005
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