Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1971

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very large object seen over the west end A friend and i were going to Waterbury to meet friends. We were in the area of upson st. and the traffic was stopped.

when i looked out of the window i saw alot of people standding in the litchfield farms parking lot looking up in the sky; when i looked up i saw an immense object, i couldn't see the beginning or end of it. it was black and if i remember had red lights on the bottom of it, mabie it had other lights too but this thing appeared to be very dense and although i didn't hear any noise i recall a vibration. my friend was afraid so we contiued toward waterbury as we went up wollcott mountain in the area of central high school i looked back and could see this thing from above and it covered the west end of town it was as big as a mall.

once we got to waterbury and met our friends i told them what had happened. the next part is hard to explain but we were riding around the block and the same events would repeat themselves (ex. the same car would pull out in the same spot, the same man with a suitcase would cross at the same red light) i think we rode around the block 3 or 4 times before someone else took the wheel and broke this pattern.

if anyone else saw this thing or had anything unusual happen to them at this time i would really like to know about it. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Mothership over Litchfield CT I was enrolled at a school for boys called Connecticut Junior Republic in Lichfield in 1971,I was part of a gymnastic troupe that was coming back from exibition in Bantam CT we were in a passenger pannel van just coming into the downtown area of Lichfield CT when for some reason traffic came to a halt. I still don't know why but we were stopped on a main road. When someone noticed a very large disc shaped object hovering just above the trees, directly above us.

I was in the rear of the van where there are no seats so I opened the rear door of the van and simply got out and looked straight up at the object. It was at least two football feilds wide, completely round, it was motionless, with bright multi-colored lights that ran around the rim of the craft. The other kids in the van with me got out and were staring at it along with me.

We could not believe what we were seeing. The adult that was driving the van was yelling continuously "get back in the van." Because we were on a main road with traffic in front and behind us.

I noticed some of the other drivers were also out of their vehicles looking at this object. The only thing I can compare it to, is the mothership in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. What is really weird is when we got back to the school no one spoke of what we had just seen.

It is as if it never happened. To this day I have no memory of any of us ever getting back into the van. My only memory is of just being back at the school that night.

I will never forget that night. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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i was just a baby up at fallmount, past central high school, wolcott st.i was told by my family dad, mom and 4 brother that when i was just a baby a ufo hooverd above are house for about 10 min.or more.

they said it shoke the house and lights were going in to are house,my brothers were outside still playing in the dark when they were called to come in right away by my parent.are mother hide us behind the couch until it went away.after it was over my dad had called the police,then in turn the police call the air port and so on to see if there were any of there caft up in that area during that time .

they all said no,the police told my dad there is nothing that they can do. ((NUFORC Note: Date of the sighting probably is approximate. PD)).

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Bue lights in Manchester Ct. Sky 1971 The first object appeared and hovered about 500 ft. over the southern sky above Tolland Tpke; 1 of three sightings.

It remained there for over a minute. Than accelerated with no noise in the direction of Hartford. This happened at the Tolland St.

interchange of I-84. The second appeared at the middle RR crossing of Tolland Tpke and the third in front of 1701 Tolland Tpke. The second and third were I dentical in size, shape, and direction of departure to the first.

A Manchester Police Officer was made aware of the sightings and after a question about description of the object we were informed that 30 children at robertson school saw the same thing. Also were told that there were other sightings and they, at that point had continued for about a month.