RHODE ISLAND

MANVILLE
7/17/96
(RDUP7/28/96)
At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 1996, Richard and Fran Shea of Manville, R.I. were driving north on Interstate Route 295 when they saw the UFO. They reported their sighting in a letter to the editor. (Providence, R.I. Journal-Bulletin, July 24, 1996, page B-7)

The Sheas wrote, "We would just like to know if anybody driving north on Route 295 on July 17 at about 7:30 p.m. saw an object in the sky to the northeast. It first appeared as gray, then disappeared and quickly reappeared as silvery. It was not an airplane. Was there anybody else out there who saw this?"

Route 295 is six miles west of Providence and approximately 70 air miles northeast of the TWA Flight 800 crash site south of Islip, N.Y.