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Date / Time City State Shape Duration Summary Posted
3/31/08 01:00 Newport RI Triangle present occuring right now 3/31/08
2/21/08 18:00 Providence RI Other 10 seconds Object shaped like a backslash (\) zoomed across downtown Providence sky. 3/4/08
1/7/08 06:30 Cranston RI Circle 4minutes round golden glowing orb with spike shaped projections 1/21/08
1/3/08 02:40 West Warwick RI Unknown 20 min. Sighted three white to bluish lights that came to a stationary halt -watched for 15 min. & fell asleep. 1/21/08
12/6/07 19:55 West Warwick RI Circle 60 seconds Me and my father's girlfriend were walking back form the store when what we seen what we though was an airplane flying extrmely close t 3/4/08
11/6/07 18:00 Providence RI Light one minute Elongated yellowish bar of light which pulsated as it travelled 11/28/07
9/15/07 19:35 Kingston RI Fireball 2 minutes Pinkish Red Fireball Flash Sighting. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)) 11/28/07
9/14/07 05:35 Tiverton RI Circle 15 Minutes + Huge, bright light in morning sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus. PD)) 10/8/07
9/13/07 21:00 Portsmouth RI Triangle 30 minutes A triangluar craft with blinking lights seemed to be surveying the backroads of Portsmouth and Middletown before it flew away. 10/8/07
8/19/07 23:30 Little Compton RI Triangle 15:00 the object resonded to my flashlight,and flashed colored lights back 10/8/07
8/19/07 22:00 Cranston RI Light 2 min There were 2 lights in the southern sky, one following the other, then a 3rd light shot from one of them and headed towards the ground. 10/8/07
7/6/07 21:20 Lincoln RI Light 60 seconds Quickly Growing White Light in Rhode Island 8/7/07
6/7/07 21:15 Narragansett RI Chevron 10 minutes Large, silent, low, gliding craft over the RI shoreline 6/12/07
5/5/07 13:00 South Kingstown RI Other 5 minutes Unmarked helicopter 8/7/07
4/29/07 21:00 North Kingstown RI Triangle 5 min I live on Annaquatucket rd in NK, RI I was sitting in my room and i heard dogs barking and crying outside my open window. I got up to s 6/12/07
2/8/07 01:40 Lincoln RI Light 35 min 2 large amber lights, 1 blinking light. Hovering & moving rapidly and erratically. 2/24/07
12/15/06 15:00 East Providence RI Circle 3 or 4 mins Round flying object travelling slowly with lights around the bottom 2/24/07
10/25/06 23:50 Warwick RI Triangle 10 seconds 3 arrow shaped objects brown in color flying in a triangular formation moving very quickly. 10/30/06
10/21/06 00:00 North Kingstown RI Circle 4 seconds Flew 50 feet in air, one after another, came back towards us, and then went back into the opposite direction. 2/1/07
10/20/06 06:30 Providence RI Egg less then a minute eggs shape bottom glowing craft 10/30/06
10/1/06 18:30 West Greenwhich RI Disk 8 hours Saw Disc about 40 ft from me, helicopters came and picked it up. 2/1/07
9/7/06 01:30 Pawtucket RI Sphere 15 seconds round ball like very bright 10/30/06
7/17/06 21:30 Newport RI Light 7 minutes A bright orange light. Moved awkwardly up and down as it traveled across the sky...Like a fireball at one point then suddenly moves 10/30/06
7/16/06 22:00 Smithfield RI Triangle 15 minutes Red and Green blinking aircrafts flying fast and low 10/30/06
6/16/06 22:00 Narragansett RI Light 15 minutes Bright stationary amber light then fading out 7/16/06
2/28/06 19:45 Middletown RI Light 10 sec Possible correlation to South Kingston sighting of 28 Feb 5/15/06
2/28/06 19:45 South Kingstown RI Chevron 3 minutes Huge chevron or triangular craft with two large white circular lights 3/11/06
2/21/06 21:00 North Kingstown RI Other ? at least 1 minute North Kingstown RI odd sighting 3/11/06
1/19/06 05:00 Wakefield RI Light 5:45 They appeared as stars and then they moved. 2/14/06
1/13/06 02:20 Providence RI Teardrop Early Morning It was being chased by a plane! 2/14/06
1/12/06 17:05 South Kingstown RI Light 7 seconds Bright light fades to nothingness 2/14/06
12/18/05 16:00 Warwick RI Triangle 5 to 6 minutes we were in our car when we saw a 2 object with lights the lights were red 2/14/06
11/10/05 19:15 Kingstown RI Light 5 sec a large light overhead going north,5 times the size of a planes'light, disapearing behind clou 12/16/05
11/5/05 23:00 Cranston RI Unknown 10 minutes 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 11/8/05
11/1/05 23:00 Jamestown RI Light 2-3 minutes Lights in the november sky 11/8/05
10/2/05 17:30 Providence RI Changing 5 minutes White tear drop shaped object that was visible to the naked eye that I noticed after an aircraft flew overhead. 10/11/05
9/12/05 22:45 Cumberland RI Unknown 2 minutes In line strobe lights over Cumberland, RI 10/11/05
7/4/05 23:00 Warwick RI Circle 3 hours Circles near Quonsett point-seen @ oakland beach Warwick Rhode island 7/13/05
6/5/05 11:35 Lincoln RI Other :20 The spheres never moved, only changed colors then faded away. 6/20/05
4/24/05 19:45 Pawtucket RI Changing <1 sec Unidentified falling object/light 5/11/05
4/14/05 20:30 East Greenwich RI Triangle 1-2mins Triangular ship, stationary, black body, white lights on the three corners and a blinking red/white strobe dead center. 4/16/05
3/13/05 23:00 Cranston RI Triangle 2Minutes 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
5/11/05
2/1/05 20:30 Scituate RI Light long Has anyone else in RI, CT or MA seen this? 2/8/05
1/8/05 00:15 Cumberland RI Triangle 0:10 Triangular craft hovered for awhile, then shot off northward 1/11/05
1/2/05 20:00 Pawtucket RI Circle ~5 min sphere hummed overhead while flashing red and blue - slowly departed to the east, into South Attleboro / route 95 1/11/05
12/13/04 20:35 Exeter RI Light less than a second unusual light in sky 12/14/04
12/2/04 17:30 West Greenwich RI Triangle 1min30sec 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 12/3/04
11/16/04 21:00 Newport RI Triangle 4 min 11-16-04 On this night both the anniversary of my fathers death and the birth of my grandfather I had an intense UFO experience. While 10/30/06
9/7/04 04:45 Providence/Warwick RI Formation 18+minutes Colorful lights seen over Providence/Warwick-did you see this? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect Venus. PD)) 9/9/04
9/1/04 20:34 Providence RI Egg 2 Minutes Two Oval/Egg shaped objects over Providence sky 9/9/04
8/31/04 21:00 North Kingstown RI Light 5 minutes blurry bar of light in western sky ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Cape Canaveral. PD)) 9/9/04
8/26/04 22:13 Westerly RI Triangle 1 min black triangle over chopper and house in RI 9/1/04
8/16/04 21:28 Scituate RI Light 5 minutes Light, moving up down and left to right ((Possibly Jupiter??)) 8/24/04
8/15/04 03:30 Cranston RI Formation 20+ minutes Saw a formation of crescent-shapped objects over suburban neighborhood. 3/31/08
8/8/04 23:00 Johnston RI Disk 2 minutes ufo over rhodeisland the real deal . 2/14/06
7/15/04 13:30 North Kingstown RI Other 1 minute object came down from clouds and moved around general area of my back yard, then went off in same manner it came in. 7/16/06
7/3/04 12:30 South Kingstown RI Cigar 2 seconds Cigar shaped object flashes twice 7/25/04
6/11/04 01:50 Pawtucket RI Other 10 min The aircraft was hovering in the sky and then another one came and got next to it and they jsut dissapeared 6/20/05
3/15/04 19:44 Harrisville RI Light 5 seconds light shoots straight arcross sky in about 5 seconds 3/17/04
3/15/04 19:30 West Warwick RI Egg appr 15 sec 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 3/17/04
2/16/04 12:30 Interstate-95 RI Light 2 min Bright light in sky over CT 3/2/04
1/20/04 14:30 Cranston RI Unknown 1 hour Loud noise like a jet engine that went off and on for an hour making strange sounds. 8/11/04
1/18/04 12:30 Glocester RI Teardrop 4-5 minutes Small black object moving through woods. 1/22/04
10/31/03 22:00 Wakefield RI Triangle 2 minutes Large triangular object flying fairly low over Route 1 in wakefield Rhode Island on Halloween. 4 large white lights. 11/8/03
10/23/03 10:15 South Kingstown RI Unknown 2 seconds Loud explosion heard along southern Rhode Island coast. 10/31/03
10/3/03 12:50 Coventry RI Formation 1 minute a triangle formation of crafts 10/7/03
9/15/03 22:30 North Kingstown RI Formation 5 secs 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 2/22/05
8/21/03 21:29 Atlantic Ocean RI Unknown 10 minutes Ufo sighting 17 miles into the atlantic ocean 9/9/03
7/19/03 22:10 Scituate RI Oval 45-60 seconds while at Seagrave (Amateur Astronomy) Observatory on Peeptoad Road, Scituate,Rhode Island,noticed on the western horizon a turquoise br 7/23/03
7/15/03 00:30 West Greenwich, East Greenwich, West Warwick, Warwick RI Disk About 12-15 Minutes Craft follows our car up the highway for at least 10 minutes then takes off when we change direction and speed abruptly. 4/27/04
7/1/03 22:00 coventry RI Changing 3 minutes energy wings that took up the whole sky breaking into three small white lights and jetting off- no sound what so ever 10/30/06
3/16/03 21:00 Portsmouth RI Fireball five minutes Vary large glowing object with a red blinking light beneath the bright round yellow/orange glowing light 3/21/03
12/24/02 16:00 Providence RI Sphere 2 minutes 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 12/16/05
11/28/02 05:00 Cumberland RI Disk 35 minutes Disk Shaped Revolving Lights in the Sky 12/23/02
6/25/02 22:00 Westerly RI Light five minutes traveling at fast speeds as high as the stars on a clear night then gone out of sight 7/26/02
4/10/02 09:00 Coventry RI Formation 00:37 It was scary! 4/25/02
3/17/02 20:30 Richmond RI Light 1 minute A light followed me home and then dissapeared! 4/8/02
2/9/02 13:30 Barrington RI Fireball 5 sec 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 2/22/02
11/11/01 23:40 Cumberland RI Triangle ongoing 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 11/20/01
9/6/01 22:45 Lincoln RI Disk 2-3 minutes The whole bottom was a bright white light and around the perimeter was a single strip of colored blinking lights. 10/12/01
8/15/01 02:30 Bristol RI Unknown 1 min Dark shape with burnt orange glow near Bristol RI 3/11/03
7/30/01 22:00 Jamestown RI Light 5 minutes Object resembling airplane light blinked in random patterns, moved strangely, then very quickly for a sec., turned red and dissappeared 8/5/01
7/29/01 21:00 Interstate 95 RI Triangle 5 minutes Still triangle with 3 points of light 8/5/01
7/15/01 04:30 Smithfield RI Light 5 minutes First noticed what appeared to be a very brilliant star in the western sky, reddish colored, like the planet Mars might appear. After 8/5/01
7/4/01 21:10 Narragansett RI Rectangle 30 seconds 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 8/5/01
3/20/01 19:30 Portsmouth RI Chevron 30 seconds Chevron shaped object seen in Rhode Island sky on night of Vernal Equinox. 4/1/01
1/28/01 09:30 East Providence RI Other 3 to 4 mins 2 VERY BRIGHTLY lit craft were observed flying in clear, sunny skies, and one became stationary; both were at high altitude. 2/18/01
1/17/01 23:22 West Warwick RI Circle 4 min. Large, circular object with a ring of flashing red and white lights zigzag in night sky. 2/18/01
10/8/00 16:00 West Warwick RI Formation 15 Min 12 White Circles stationary in different formations for 10 to 15 min. 12/2/00
9/1/00 22:35 South County RI Other
Black helicopter sightings over Southern Rhode Island. 12/2/00
8/25/00 21:05 Hopkinton RI Light 2min Unexplained light 9/17/00
7/14/00 02:30 Pasquag RI Circle 2:40 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 7/23/00
6/22/00 21:30 Providence (On the coastline, SSW of) RI Egg five seconds An egg shaped object passed in close proximity of my aircraft. 8/19/00
3/31/00 05:05 Charlestown RI Disk 10 min Glowing orange shaped like an end view of airplane wing. 4/15/00
3/23/00 19:30 Providence RI Rectangle 20 TO 25 SEC 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 4/1/00
2/28/00 21:30 Charlestown RI Light 30 min. Light over submarine base, Groton, CT. 3/7/00
8/16/99 08:30 Woonsocket RI

Sighting Happened: Made front page headlines of the Woonsocket Call in Woonsocket Rhode Island. August 26, 1999 edition Article in news 8/30/99
7/6/99 00:00 Cranston RI Egg 10 seconds A silvery egg-shaped craft is seen over a highway. 4/8/02
5/6/99 04:30 Cranston RI Egg 3 seconds It flew over the highway 4/8/02
2/20/99 23:40 Hope Valley RI Triangle 10 minutes Another sighting of the triangular craft with logo. 4/2/99
2/15/99 19:00 Hopkington RI Triangle 15 minutes 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 4/2/99
11/15/98 21:00 Cranston RI Light 5 Seconds 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 12/2/00
10/15/98 18:00 Warwick RI Other 5min Bright flat object moved upwards and disapeared behind cloads. 11/1/98
9/26/98 00:00 Warwick RI Circle 3 hrs 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. 11/1/98
9/22/98 16:18 Portsmouth RI Egg 2 sec Amber/gold rising from tree level 45 deg up. Fast and accelerating. Dissaperaed behind tree branch. Very bright. 9/26/98
6/8/98 21:00 Newport RI Light 25 minutes Clear night+high visability,2 yellow lights,even shading,no vertical movement,close proximatey,very long visual time 2/18/01
1/29/98 14:00 Coventry RI Disk 4-5 minutes Shiny metal ship with row of blinking red lights. Classic saucer shape w/ dome. 1/28/99
12/1/97 00:00 Warwick RI Circle 1 hour 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 6/2/98
11/21/97 17:00 North Kingstown RI Triangle 10sec or less 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 1/28/99
1/29/97 23:15 East Greenwich RI Disk 5 minutes 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
3/7/98
1/23/97 18:30 North Kingstown RI Triangle 3 minutes 1/23/97: Huge black triangle w/ rearguard heli, sighted over deserted Rte.1A in RI, drifts overhead & out to Sea. 1/27/05
1/1/97 15:30 Johnston RI Rectangle 1 min Cube haystack shape seen a between 1997-1998 (not sure of exact date)........ 8/11/04
6/29/96 22:00 East Providence RI Light 45 min Very bright white obj. changes shape from circle to oval. 1/3 apparent diam of moon at closest approach. Blinking lights at top. 11/2/99
6/29/96 21:00 East Providence RI light 1 hour and longer A large white pulsating light 1/28/99
10/2/95 10:15 N. Providence RI
3 min. Man witnesses "small white dot, that came out of clouds." Was slow-moving, white, w/ "red on tail." 11/2/99
9/30/95 13:30 N. Providence RI

Man reports seeing cluster of 3 objects "like white balloons" pacing airliner in N sky. Objs. disappear, return. Change color,shape. 11/2/99
9/18/95 18:40 N. Kingston RI
90 min. 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. 11/2/99
6/18/93 20:45 Block Island RI Other 1/2 hour Time loss and multiple objects seen on Island of coast of Rhode Island, USA. 2/18/01
10/29/90 20:45 Burlingame State Park RI Other 5-10 seconds Small airborne, manta-shaped object observed from a closest distance of ~15 feet for around 6 seconds by two reliable observers. 5/2/03
8/20/89 14:00 North Kingstown RI Light 2 1/2 hours Bright light, sunny afternoon sky, Aug. '89. Stationary for 2 hrs. plus, highly visible, eerie. 1/27/05
10/15/82 19:30 Smithfield RI Circle 1 min lights were flashing and I thought to myself "there are no towers here". 11/3/05
6/6/82 01:00 Warwick RI Disk 2 minutes Two orange/gold saucer shaped craft 12/7/06
6/11/81 18:00 Providence RI Diamond 30 min. A sighting at a distance of 30 feet 10/27/04
5/15/79 01:00 Wordens Pond Road RI Disk 15 min A bright light appeared over the trees while driving home and changed colors soon after that,. 2/22/02
4/12/79 22:00 East Providence RI Chevron 60-70 seconds V shaped (Chevron shaped ) Craft appeared to just clear the top of the Water Tower 4/9/04
1/5/78 Warwick RI Sphere 5 mins Warwick, Rhode Island Jan/Feb 1978 Red Orb 9/17/00
8/15/76 22:30 Weekapaug RI Formation 5 seconds Three globular lights in a tight triangular formation passed east to west at low altitude 8/5/01
5/1/76 20:00 Coventry RI Formation 3min red orbs 'dancing' around a central orb 6/18/04
10/15/75 17:00 Scituate RI Circle 10 minutes Object with orange lights moves straight up in sky to nothingness. 12/16/05
7/22/75 21:00 Cranston RI Light 20 min religious connection 3/4/08
1/24/74 22:00 Pawtucket RI Disk 1 hour R.I. sphere shaped object landed on flat top three door garage. 1974 .the beams still show cracks that developed from the weight 3/4/03
8/17/71 22:15 Quonsett Pt. NAS RI Other 1 minute "Being" spotted on Naval Air Station 1971 7/16/06
6/15/70 19:30 CT/RI border RI 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 4/16/05
6/30/67 19:00 Portmouth RI Disk 5 mins Luminous disc shaped tilted object with aura/haze around it 10/30/06
9/28/66 20:00 Coventry RI Circle Approx.20 mins 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 3/2/04
7/2/65 22:30 Narragansett RI Egg 15 sec. Golden egg chased by navy fighters. THe egg got away. 1965 New England 4/27/04
8/1/64 20:00 Charlestown RI Light 3 seconds 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 2/16/99
11/15/58 22:30 Greenville RI Disk ax. 10 min. Five small disk or spherical-shaped objects merging with a large saucer-shaped object observed by three whitnesses in 1958. 4/16/05
09/0?/96 22:30 Wakefield RI Circle 15 min or so ball of light in sky. stayed hovering above the house, moved to trees. then vanished about 15 min later. 2/16/99
21:00 Cranston RI Circle 1-2 Hours 3 circles that were in a straight line of eachother O O O they were very bright 10/30/06