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Rhode Island UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 597 UFO sighting reports in Rhode Island to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (118 reports, 19.77% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (83 reports, 13.90% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (120 reports, 20.10% of total).
- 09/19/09 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 0.84% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (50 reports, 8.38% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (256 reports, 42.88% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Rhode Island
These Rhode Island UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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8 white orbs came from horizon following each other straight up into the sky as far as I could see then disappeared It was November 29, 2023, 6:30 pm, fairly warm and clear night, high clouds I was sitting looking out at Spring Lake and on the horizon across the lake appeared 8 orbs slowly flying, following each other in a complete straight line to the top of the sky as far as I could see then disappeared. There was no noise and no engine trail although this is a common flight path I have never seen anything like this, and they appeared to be about 10 miles away. I read about Elon Musk satellites and saw pictures; these did not look like the pictures I have seen.
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It happened really fast figured I’d report it idk I was watching the stars as I do most early mornings and I saw a really bright ball of light and it zipped by super quick not across the whole sky maybe like a fourth of the sky and then disappeared into the sky. It was only one I’m still very shocked but I saw online it says to report so here I am.
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over the ocean - darting in all directions. I took a slow Mo video. It had multiple lights on it It was dark out and I noticed something in the sky that seemed to be moving differently than an airplane would.
I took slow motion videos. It seems to be something odd.
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I’ve been watching this orb that’s a white light just hover in one spot as planes fly by going to providence (green airport) Possible star but seems to close to be one. I took videos of it as planes pass by. It seems to be a light of some sort .
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A spherical bright light spot that moved faster than planes at that altitude. I was on flight NK2060 MCO-BOS seating on 25A (window on Port side of the plane) enjoying my vacation. The descent had already started and we were around 15 minutes from landing.
I estimate the altitude should be around 6000 feet. I was looking at the window and recognizing other Aircraft models that passed by (I like to do that since I work at an airport and I’m interested in planes). I recognized several of them, but suddenly I saw this spherical object reflecting very bright white blueish light going SW direction.
I mean it passed in the opposite direction we were heading and I could see it for about 7 seconds and I didn’t have enough time to grab a camera. It passed by us I would say not more than 1 mile below and 1 mile East and moved at at least double speed of other aircrafts. It had nothing to do with any aspect of an aircraft.
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Noticed a stationary object above the tree line Me and my boyfriend were sitting on a park bench on a clear and sunny day. I noticed across the bay a stationary object above the tree line. I pointed it out to him and we figured it was a plane because it was in a common flight path.
We watched it for about a minute and it seemed to not move at all then moved in almost a straight line down towards the tree line. It stopped right above the tree line for another few seconds and then move down again out of view. The whole encounter seemed to have lasted 1-2 minutes.
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While star gazing, a shooting disk came flashing by. Definitely wasn’t a star though. Flashing light, disk shape fly by.
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I was driving the interstate at night with my buddy headed to casino when a very bright flashing light appeared in the horizon, I had my eyes on the road the whole time and it appeared almost as if it was out of thin air, flying on with no curve to its direction or sound, no trail, nothing that would indicate it’s possible with the technology we have today. The UFO flashed twice, the second time it flashes it had disappeared and it’s absolutely impossible for it to have just disappeared. By the time it blinked the second time, my buddy had also picked up on the object flying at an extreme rate of speed blink and disappear.
I know it couldn’t have been an airplane or helicopter, I have never seen something fly with such speed in my line in a straight line without producing sound by breaking the sound barrier. I have never reported a UFO sighting and I have never experienced something like this in my life, I wish I had a video for better explanations however, I also know I couldn’t have been the only one on that highway with my friend who had seen what we seen. If our eyes picked it up in the night sky out of all those other dimmer lights from planes and other civilized aircraft’s, other had to of as well.
Following seeing the light disperse in the sky out of no where, we had seen multiple plane lights and helicopters stationed, flying around the exact area where we had seen the light, this also helped us distinguish the difference between what we had seen and what we know as currently accessible technology. Not sure if the other aircraft were looking for what we had seen but if it showed up on an airport radar and vanished, it would make sense.
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Cone shaped with tails appearing to be all white light. Cone shaped in its entirety appearing to be all white light. Headed toward earth, with movement that is similar to some thing that would be burning.
The cone shape was made possibly by the "tails" which seemed to come off the original possibly round shape. Shape and tails were all the same color, white light. Movement appeared to be slowly descending based on the distance where it was observed.
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Glowing Orb It was a gloomy rainy day. I was standing at the top of the basement stairs watching a video on my phone when I noticed this ambient golden orb the size of a thumbnail it was about 4 feet from the ground and only a foot away from me.It just hovered there and slowly drifted off to the left .
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A string of lights 4 in a line 1 off center moving in a snake like way up and down low in the sky. We were outside partying and I pointed out the strange lights in the sky. there were 4 lights in a row, and one was off center.
They moved in a weird snake-like way, up and down and in a southwestern direction. I pointed them out, and 2 other people at the party saw what I pointed at, while other didn't despite looking where I was pointing. One person moved to follow the movement as it passed over my house, I did not.
I felt, more than saw, but it felt like there was something invisible spinning around those lights. I know that is strange, but I very much got the impression that the 4 lights were one side of the craft and the off center light was where the craft arched, or bent, and the light was passing through an invisible disc. The people who saw it agreed it was strange, and thought the movement was very odd.
Suggestions of Space X and Starlink don't make much sense when compared to what I saw, but I suppose it isn't out of the question. It was low in the sky, in relation to the building across the street from me, we weren't looking directly up, it was on the horizon. One of the people that saw it suggested it might have been a drone, but I didn't hear any noise from it, but we were at a party with music and about 10 people.
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MADAR Node 122 at Worcester, MA 24 mi NE of Woonsocket, RI .
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Semi circle of lights hovering I was sitting out on the steps on the deck of backyard. Through the trees, I saw a bright light and thought it was odd. I got up and saw a semi circle of lights on a hovering circle object.
The lights were dull to bright, very slowly hovering left to right. I ran in to get my family, to show them out of disbelief. They too see the object and we alerted the neighbor who also came out to see the strange hovering object.
It stayed in the area for a good 30 minutes before going higher in the sky and out of sight. I also received clearer image from another person via fb that captures a clearer image. My phone doesn't catch night vision.
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Ufo interacting with plane Watching the sunset We seen a plane and it’s exhaust from the motor,Behind it comes an aircraft and flies directly through the single engine planes exhaust.He then slowly passed the plane then quickly put miles of space between them in seconds.The ufo flew out of my image while the plane was still miles behind.
The ufo did this with no sign of exhaust.The pilot of the plane that day was certain to have reported something unexplained.I did manage to capture the image right before it disappeared behind the city line.
This was the most vivid sighting I’ve ever had .
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U.A.P flew up to slowed down and passed an airplane with both exhaust like the plane I was watching the sunset after my son had got me out of the house finally from telling me two different times that he kept seeing something in the sky.
When I seen a single engine airplane creating exhaust clouds. I then noticed another object following it as it proceeded to gain on the airplane following in the plane am exhaust clouds.The UAP then passed the plane and put much distance between them.
The object never once let out any similar exhaust from a motor like engine a typical airplane would have. The object most DEFINITELY came in contact with that air pilot. I wouldn’t doubt if he made a report himself as the UAP was extremely close to the plane as it passed it.
It followed the exact path of the airplane from the beginning of the planes clouds to passing it. As the UAP went into airplanes clouds it wasn’t able to be seen.
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2 orange streaks See video.
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Around 1:50 am about 20 minutes after falling asleep I remember waking up but suffering paralysis and experiencing contact with ship I truthfully feel like I suffered sleep paralysis and while in it, made contact and was teleported onto a ship that then flew at a speed that was beyond the comprehension of time! I FELT THE G FORCE OF THE CRAFT THAT I WAS TELEPORTED onto fly! I seen a portal of some sort in which I passed through as I heard an eclectic electric style peaceful yet energetic music play that let me feel I wouldn't be in harm's way. It happened extremely fast. While in/out of sleep I remember seeing the craft hover over the home I am at slowly then a bright beam of light through the picture window teleport me onto this bizarre craft.
Once the experience was over I lay in bed still in a brief paralysis semi conscious and began to dream! Then woke up by my phones notification sound shaking from the experience not knowing of it were real or I were dreaming. That was until the next morning when my roommate and I spoke about it and he began to show me photos of phenomena that he has experienced and even snapped photos of! It seemed real due to the teleporting and the feeling of flying and seeing the portal around me and hearing strange music. Just a very peculiar experience that has never happened to me before in my life.
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The top of a triangle of stars appeared to be moving, while staring at it the lower right star took off upwards and right. While sitting on the steps of the WW1 memorial during a family trip, myself and my fiancé were staring at the stars. My fiancé pointed out a star that she said appeared to be moving in relation to the other stars near it.
She pointed out a “star” that had two underneath it in a triangle pattern. It appeared that the top “star” might have been moving up and down slightly in relation to the other stars. I couldn’t be sure if it was, because the movements were so small I thought it could be my eyes wanting to see something that wasn’t there.
As we were staring at this top star for roughly a minute, all of a sudden the bottom right star of the triangle pattern made a rapid movement upwards far past the reference point of the top star, then made a right at a 45 degree angle and disappeared. I couldn’t tell if the second movement was actually moving right or just pulled a great distance away. The movement was exactly like the UAP’s seen in the Navy videos and others like it.
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Big glowing red ball moving erratically It was a big red glowing ball that moved weirdly in different directions then took off.
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MADAR site 43 is only 8 mi from North Kingston. Had a spike in the magnetometer reading.
Rhode Island UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 118 reported sightings | 19.77% of all reports |
Circle | 79 reported sightings | 13.23% of all reports |
Other | 47 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
Disk | 45 reported sightings | 7.54% of all reports |
Triangle | 44 reported sightings | 7.37% of all reports |
Fireball | 40 reported sightings | 6.70% of all reports |
Unknown | 38 reported sightings | 6.37% of all reports |
Sphere | 35 reported sightings | 5.86% of all reports |
Formation | 21 reported sightings | 3.52% of all reports |
Oval | 16 reported sightings | 2.68% of all reports |
Diamond | 14 reported sightings | 2.35% of all reports |
Cigar | 13 reported sightings | 2.18% of all reports |
Egg | 12 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
Rectangle | 11 reported sightings | 1.84% of all reports |
Changing | 10 reported sightings | 1.68% of all reports |
Chevron | 10 reported sightings | 1.68% of all reports |
Cylinder | 9 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
Teardrop | 7 reported sightings | 1.17% of all reports |
Flash | 6 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Cone | 3 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Orb | 2 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 83 reported sightings | 13.90% of all reports |
August | 69 reported sightings | 11.56% of all reports |
September | 67 reported sightings | 11.22% of all reports |
October | 57 reported sightings | 9.55% of all reports |
November | 55 reported sightings | 9.21% of all reports |
June | 53 reported sightings | 8.88% of all reports |
January | 50 reported sightings | 8.38% of all reports |
May | 33 reported sightings | 5.53% of all reports |
March | 32 reported sightings | 5.36% of all reports |
December | 31 reported sightings | 5.19% of all reports |
February | 28 reported sightings | 4.69% of all reports |
April | 26 reported sightings | 4.36% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 120 reported sightings | 20.10% of all reports |
Thursday | 97 reported sightings | 16.25% of all reports |
Sunday | 83 reported sightings | 13.90% of all reports |
Tuesday | 77 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Friday | 76 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Monday | 72 reported sightings | 12.06% of all reports |
Wednesday | 59 reported sightings | 9.88% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/19/09 | 5 reported sightings | 0.84% of all reports |
05/12/12 | 4 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
07/04/15 | 3 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
06/29/96 | 2 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
05/09/12 | 2 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 256 reported sightings | 42.88% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 121 reported sightings | 20.27% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 79 reported sightings | 13.23% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 54 reported sightings | 9.05% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 39 reported sightings | 6.53% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 35 reported sightings | 5.86% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Rhode Island
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Rhode Island.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Rhode Island
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Rhode Island