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Rhode Island UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 6 UFO sighting reports in Rhode Island from 2002 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 06/25/02 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
Rhode Island UFO Sighting Reports in 2002
This is a sampling of 20 Rhode Island UFO reports from 2002, 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).
Full Report Text:
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 in front of me. Then they spiraled upward to the sky and dashed out opposite of each other and disapeared from sight.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
Full Report Text:
Disk Shaped Revolving Lights in the Sky Saw three disk shaped objects over my house. Very qiuet. Nothing spectacular, but I NEVER saw anything like it before.
Full Report Text:
traveling at fast speeds as high as the stars on a clear night then gone out of sight one small light about as high as the stars moving south at a high rate of speed then went out of sight, It was awesome ((NUFORC Note: Witness remains anonymous. PD)).
Full Report Text:
It was scary! It looked like f/a-18 super hornet, but was to fast to be anything Earthly. It also made a strange noise like noise from the ground was reflecting off the formation of ufos. Then a bang was heard and they disappeared.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain anonymous. PD)).
Full Report Text:
A light followed me home and then dissapeared! I was in the car coming home from Karate when I saw this light. I thought it was a plane, but it seemeed to follow us. We drove past a tree and it was gone! I have seen many UFOs before, but not like this.
((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the sighting is an evening event, not a morning event. We have changed the time here to 20:30 hrs. PD)).
Full Report Text:
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 my wife suddendly said "Oooo, look at that". I looked up (looked north and maybe slightly west) and saw a brillant fireball heading nearly straight down.
I could only perceive a slight arc. While probably not a extra-terrestrial space craft, it was still enough to make my heart skip. I had never seen a metor during the day - what it must have looked like at night! I was shocked at how long we could observe the object since most metors last just an instant.
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2002 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Light | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Formation | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Disk | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2002 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| June | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| November | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| April | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| December | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| March | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| February | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2002 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2002 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 06/25/02 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| 04/10/02 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| 03/17/02 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| 02/09/02 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| 11/28/02 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2002 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
| Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
All Rhode Island Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2002
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Rhode Island, in 2002
| City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Westerly | 1 UFO Reports | Westerly UFO Sightings in 2002 |
| Coventry | 1 UFO Reports | Coventry UFO Sightings in 2002 |
| Richmond | 1 UFO Reports | Richmond UFO Sightings in 2002 |
| Barrington | 1 UFO Reports | Barrington UFO Sightings in 2002 |
| Cumberland | 1 UFO Reports | Cumberland UFO Sightings in 2002 |
| Providence | 1 UFO Reports | Providence UFO Sightings in 2002 |
Other 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.