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Rhode Island UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 15 UFO sighting reports in Rhode Island from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (2 reports, 13.33% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 07/10/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 13.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 40.00% of total).
Rhode Island UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Rhode Island UFO reports from 2021, 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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Orange light changing to white moving slowly without a sound. It was New Years Eve at 9:50pm and I was going outside to my garage,I was approaching the side door to enter and I looked to my right south west and saw an orange light moving towards me.I thought it odd because of the color and it didn't have any marker lights like aircraft do (red and green) blinking so at that point I thought to take out my cell phone and take a picture of it.
I had seen this orange light before and just watched it go across the sky and wished I taken a picture of it.Well this time I snapped pictures to show my wife who was in the house.I took some photos as it moved by me above the trees and I stopped when the object stopped moving in front of me because my flash was on and I felt a very uneasy feeling like it saw me.
I don't mind saying I became concerned as I felt a fear for my safety at this time.I stared it it hovering there for about one minute and it shot straight up into the overcast.The object was moving from the southwest to the northeast and it not make any noise at all,I found this very creepy to say the least.
Just after this encounter I turned around and went into my house because I was feeling a bit afraid and wanted to tell my wife what had just happened to me.I came into the my house and said to my wife I just saw a object in the sky and it was a strange color,then went on to say I took some pictures of it. I took out my phone and said here take a look and she said was it a UFO joking with me.
She looked at the pictures and said that is odd and said did you enlarge the pictures and said no.We call her the cropping queen because she always crops her pictures.I went on to to do exactly that and when I zoomed in on the pictures I was shocked at the detail that was in the pictures,I'm not sure what to do with these pictures because they are not some type fake or photo shop B.
S. like you see on line.I went on line and can't find anything close to what I have on my phone.
I would take a lie detector test to prove I that my story is real and photos are the real deal,they offer some very interesting details that I can not explain.
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Saw 3 lights in triangle formation moving really slowly from east to west. Then one light faded out, then another and then the last one.
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Small yellowish blinking light, no sound, odd movement over my house It was early darkness when my dog started barking loudly inside my house. I assumed it was an animal (deer, rabbit, etc) that she could sense outside (I had no outside lights on when she barked). I flipped on the outside lights and saw nothing, but when I looked up into the dark starless sky I saw a small, blinking, yellowish light traveling in an odd pattern,like it was randomly surveying the ground.
Elevation was about 2,000 ft. It made no sound at all as I went outside to view and listen. It flew no traffic pattern consistent with the state airport or the small local airport.
Rather, it made a smooth turn to the east from the southwest, and continued out toward what would be the Atlantic ocean nearby. The blinking was orderly and not random and the speed was rather slower than regular aircraft. I lost sight of it as it proceeded east to the ocean.
Dogs are able to pick up odd vibrations and subtle sounds much more than humans and I do pay attention t! o what my dogs 'see' and hear.
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The object was shiny silver tic-tac in shape with no tail or wings visiable.no noise was heard as it passed and object was seen around.
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We witnessed an glowing orb, that lost altitude and Gained altitude very rapidly it also moved north and back south at will and looked like it flashed very bright light but possibly because of the sun sin its a sunny day and no clouds were present I suspect reflection.
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Strange Silent Orbs of Light in Formation Saw in the night sky seven glowing orbs which passed overhead from north to south without making any sound at all. The first three shapes passed over in a straight line; the next four passed shortly after the first in pairs of two. They kept changing color from red, to orange, to yellow, to white, and back again.
Finally lost sight of them (after taking pics & video) as they crested the southern horizon line.
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We were sitting in the back yard by the fire pit talking. It was a clear night sky. After about an hour, I happened to look up and saw a craft.
It had lights, but they weren't flashing. It moved at relatively slow pace. Well this was going on, a friend came out of the house from using the bathroom.
I pointing to him the craft. I asked if he noticed any lights blinking or flashing. He didn't.
Then, the craft just disappeared. Vanished. About 2 minutes later and airplane with red flashing lights flew by.
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At 11:50 am on june 17 2021 i seen a jet aircraft flying at around 30’000 ft . About a minute later i seen a black circle object flying at an altitude even highr then the airplane following it in the same direction , i yelled to my wife to come look at this out the window she seen it also . It had to be around 50,000 ft in the air .
The object was black with what looked to be a whiteish circle around it . I will email you photos , as i am still in shock as to what i seen . The skies were perfectly clear .
But still was hard to see. I had to zoom in the camera to see it good .
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On Saturday morning, June 5th, 2021, while I was on the Block Island ferry heading to Block Island from Pt. Judith,RI, a one hour trip, I was on the lower deck as I had to stay with my motorcycle, looking west, a beautiful clear and sunny day with some choppiness to the ocean, I spied what at first I thought was a seagull flying low just inches above the waves, but realized quickly it was too low and too fast for a bird, and I saw no wings moving. Upon closer inspection the object, about 300 yards out, was silvery-white and did not vary from its path right at the water surface level.
It was moving about 30 to 40 mph in a straight line. It would move below the water's surface and reappear as the waves had no effect on it. I tried to focus on the shape of the object but could only determine that it was about 18 inches in length and appeared to be somewhat cylinder shaped with two prongs sticking out from the underside.
No lights were visible on it. It was ju! st plain odd and did not look like anything else I had ever seen on the water. It showed no wake or water disturbance.
It past the ferry as it traveled south with the ferry; it was going faster than the ferry and then seemed to veer out further west toward a group of fishing boats gathered in one spot. I lost sight of it then. A few minutes later as I continued to look west another identical object, further out from where I first saw the first one, seemed to join the first one in that general area, both heading south and then a bit westward.
They were fast and low. No sound was heard. I had binoculars but they were in my lock truck pack on the bike plus the boat was rocking due to wind and I didn't want to miss viewing the objects.
The objects were not being dragged by a boat or anything but were under their own power and guidance.
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Four Glowing Orange Lights itting in my back yard i was alerted by my wife who first saw the lights. i and another witness moved to the front yard and i took out my phone and started to record. we then noticed a second set of lights following the first.
they did not look like any aircraft i had ever seen before. they were glowing maybe slightly pulsating lights. i thought maybe i heard a jet type engine but if i did it was very faint.
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Large cigar shaped craft flies overhead slowly then disappears. While standing in the parking lot at Smith’s Castle, a large cigar shaped craft appeared in the sky above us. The whole craft emitted a white glow and moved very slowly overhead.
The sky was mostly clear with an occasional cloud passing by. After about 60 seconds or less of observing the object it seemed to have just “blinked” out and disappeared. I tried to film the sighting but it did not pick up on my iPhone (which I found strange because it was fairly bright and close).
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3 yellow/orange fireball like lights traveling silently and following each other. 3 lights observed traveling north to south. The lights were yellow orange, like a flame from a fire.
They appeared to be round with a haze around them so I couldn’t determine a shape. There was no sound and they seemed to be traveling at a steady rate of speed. They were following each other but were not close together.
The night was overcast so they appeared to disappear once they got far enough away. The lights did not blink, they were steady, like a burning flame. As the 3rd light passed over, we lost internet connection for a brief period of time.
We believe that UFO’s probably exist, but until now, we’ve never seen anything to cement that belief.
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(I HAVE ALL OF THIS ON VIDEO. 11 MINUTES) A "light" appeared in the night sky seemingly out of nowhere in the distance. I've (I HAVE ALL OF THIS ON VIDEO.
11 MINUTES) A "light" appeared in the night sky seemingly out of nowhere in the distance. I've seen this same "light" in roughly the same spot three times before this. The object is suspended and the air and is brighter than anything else in the night sky.
As I watched it I could see many different colors and an undeniably different glow about it. It stood hovering in the air for multiple minutes only moving ever so much overtime. From the left I spotted another glowing object heading right into the line of direction of the first stationary one .
The object continued closer and seemed to go right through or at least directly in front of the stationary "light". The object continued on right and eventually stopped in the sky and was blinking in place. This object ended up being directly across from the first one in some kind of formation.
After reviewing the video I found a third one which would make three in a line. As I focused back in on the first bright stationary objects after a moment or so I can see some kind of "flickering" of light right to the right of it. It continues doing this for a few seconds and then, out of nowhere a bright "light" appeared identical to the first one.
Now there are two large bright objects in the sky in addition to the two less bright ones to the right. Found the same time the first stationary "light" starts very slowly heading left. It did this for several seconds and stopped in the sky again.
Again after reviewing the video I noticed other lights around this object in the sky at that time. The "light" noticeably begins to glow more around it, you can see the brilliance of the light. The object directly, but very close over me.
I saw different colors and a strange formation underneath the craft as it went overhead. It was Unbelievable. The object continued right in the night sky and flew off into the distance.
I put my camera back on the second light that had appeared out of nowhere and it was still there. In the last few seconds of my video I also captured another unidentified flying object in the sky. This is not a joke, this is not a prank.
I have video Evans for every single thing that I've said here.
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I was on 216 headed twords RT 3, I saw a metal tick tack shaped object. I lost it's view because of the tree line. I turned right into Rt 3 and finally a few minutes later I saw it again.
Right before I saw it the second time I drove by a solar power field and a worker was by his truck looking up into the sky. I'm pretty sure he was looking at it. My hubby was driving so he couldn't see it and he was gonna pull over but there was to much traffic.
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Hovering Saucer with 3 blue/white thruster looking lights. large and undeniably visible. While driving down a road that I drive down almost daily a bright object caught my eye, I was curious instantly.
I could see the edge of what looked like a disk but at first you could distinctively see lights on what seemed to be the underside or bottom of the saucer. My immediate thought was there are no red or blue flashing lights and the object was flying too low to be any plane. As we got closer it started to show itself more.
It was clearly hovering and not only do planes not fly that low around here. Planes dont hover! it proceeded to slowly move north. From my perspective it was hovering over what seemed to be the area of the hospital more so toward the Newport Naval Base.
The object seemed to turn or slowly flip to where i could distinctively see 3 circles of light that werent perfect circles and they where glowing blueish white light that was bright enough to outline the shape of the object. It was a big object bigger than any drone and any plane ! or helicopter that flies around here. As soon as it showed the three lights that where shaped like if you connected them they would make a perfect triangle, the bottom light flickered a couple times.
The lights, to me, seemed like some kind of propulsion system like thrusters and the lights were some sort of fuel/power source. The object had some sort of cloaking capability because you could see the 3 lights/thrusters and the outline but the bottom of the ship seemed to camoflage with the sky. The way this object moved and hovered alone was unlike anything ive ever seen and i have been to air shows and have seen the most modern of planes fly, ive seen the f-22 raptor up close and a b-52 bomber.
This object possessed technology and abilities that werent anything from this planet. In no way shape or form did i feel threatened by this object and it seemed to be showing itself on purpose like it was staring directly into the car. I was with two other people and i was not the dr! iver so my eye was glued to this object the whole time.
it slo! wly move d and the driver was too dumb to follow so it went beyond the line of site and dissapeared. This thing was big. the two other i was with saw the object and it was real, it was the most intense thing ive ever seen.
knowing just about 100% that what i saw no doubt was a UFO and was most likely piloted by Extra Terrestrials it absolutely blew my mind and will forever. The object was soo big and vivid it was undeniable what i saw and believe me or not i know what i saw and i believed before that they may exist. After last night there is no doubt.
It has peeked my curiosity and im craving more. Seeing this object would have made even the most skeptical of skeptics believe, i am skeptical and i dont just assume i thought of all the possibilities on what it could possibly be before i thought UFO. Theres nothing on this planet that can move and be as big as that object.
I hope people start to believe more and accept these beings because who knows how much they can help the human rac! e.
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 5 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2021 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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07/10/21 | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
06/05/21 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
03/05/21 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
06/17/21 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
02/20/21 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Rhode Island UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 6 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
All Rhode Island Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Rhode Island, in 2021
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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South Kingstown | 2 UFO Reports | South Kingstown UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Newport | 2 UFO Reports | Newport UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Cranston | 2 UFO Reports | Cranston UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Newport Rhode Island | 1 UFO Reports | Newport Rhode Island UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Warren | 1 UFO Reports | Warren UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Pawtucket | 1 UFO Reports | Pawtucket UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Warwick | 1 UFO Reports | Warwick UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Hope Valley | 1 UFO Reports | Hope Valley UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Westerly | 1 UFO Reports | Westerly UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Cumberland | 1 UFO Reports | Cumberland UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Ashaway | 1 UFO Reports | Ashaway UFO Sightings in 2021 |
North Kingstown | 1 UFO Reports | North Kingstown UFO Sightings in 2021 |
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.