Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1974

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2 girls lose track of time while singing "Octopus's Garden" and taking a short cut through the woods around a pond after seeing a UFO! On our travels away from my home to my friend's house, we cut through some wooded areas that concealed a barbed wire fence enclosing a compound called Remington Arms. We had done this hundreds of times before, just like all the kids did, but this time we had become frightened while passing through the first woods because of an orange glow which seemed to be illumunating behind some trees in the compound. It was a dry humid summer night, but it smelled strange, like rain or some wierd sweet odor.

We started to sing the Beatle's song:"Octopus'Garden" over & over again as we entered the second section of the dark wooded area. Brushing sounds of branches made us so nervous! Soon we were at the clearing around the pond and could see the open sky. We sang a bit louder and tried our best to ignore the orangey glow behind the trees.

I remember that the moon was hanging low and to keep our spirits light we slowly walked along the path toward it and kept on singing. An object seemed to fly out from inside the Remington Arms compound and we noticed the strange odor in the air again. That wierd sweet odor, but even creepier was the way the tree tops were swaying, especially because there was no wind! When we had first entered the pond area it felt as if something had been following us from behind the other side of the fence.

My friend was scared and I was too, but acted a bit braver and told her to keep singing and so our voices got louder with nervousness. As we got closer to the shore of the pond we could see the sky better across the open water. Suddenly we noticed that it was a triangular shaped ship which appeared without any sound, except for the movement of tree branches brushing together as it emerged from behind some tree tops.

The dark triangle cruised directly towards us. It had some bright orange lights and made everything look like a negative film, with that orangey, brown tone. We kept singing, but softer as we couln't believe our eyes.

Was this truly a UFO? Time seemed to stand still and must have slipped away because when we finally were able to move away and go down the path, skipping rocks in the strange glow which illuminated our way out of the woods and into the streets, the moon had risen and looked smaller. We hurried to her house as fast as we could and upon arrival everyone was worried. We were three hours late.

It was after 11:00 pm and we started out from my house at around 8:00 pm. It was less than a thirty minute walk even with our dilly-dallying! No-one believed our story and said we each shared an over active imagination. We cried and begged to be believed.

"Call the authorities! We're telling the truth." and continued to insist that our experience was real! Then the next day my friend's Dad said, "Maybe, girls, what you witnessed was only a new aircraft of sometype that the government was testing out. Make sure you both keep away from that area because you'll be caught and convicted of tresspassing!" Of course, we didn't heed him and went back the next day afterschool.

We sang until our lungs turned blue, but no UFO appeared. Later, after supper at my friends house, she decided to only walk me halfway home, the pond would be the "good-bye" point. So we sat on rocks in the clearing and began singing Octopus' Garden again.

Sure enough, the orangey glow hoovered over the moving tree branches and the UFO softly floated above the water once again, not making any sound. This time we were both frozen with fear and disbelief. Again time slipped by, my friend wore a watch, but when we checked it later, it had stopped.

She admitted that maybe she forgot to wind it or push the pin in tight enough after setting it. Whatever happened we'll never know? We ran down the path not even skipping the rocks properly. With soaking sneakers and drenched bell-botttoms, we reached the streetlights and fell to our knees in the middle of the road and began to pray! The older kids in the neighborhood started to make fun of us when we told our tale, so we stopped sharing it! One boy who had a tree house and lived near the pond told everyone that it was true and that he saw the same UFO! We sorta felt better and became closer than ever before.

Eventually,though, we kinda stopped talking about it altogether. Soon we became more interested in teenage things, like love, Rock N Roll, and our developing figures. I was always on the skinny side, butd suddenly started to loose a lot of weight.

The boy and my best friend fell in love. Soon after my parents moved to the country, I was hospitalized. The Doctors diagnosed me with Hodgekin's Lymphoma.

But the pathology report said some nodes had bizarre changes in them which couldn't be identified! Radiation & Chemotherapy took over my young life. I was just turning sixteen. I lost touch with ALL my childhood friends.

The last time we got together was in 1984 after our dear friend, who said he also saw the UFO, committed suicide. My best friend was newly engaged to be married, but suspected that she was barren inside, maybe because of our experience. I haven't seen or spoke to her since.

However,I was able to give birth to twin girls in 1986 and in March of 96 or 1997 during the visit of Hale-Bopp Comet, I had bizarre dreams of being abducted and woke up with tiny needle marks on the veins in my right hand. My daughters both had nightmares! One of them saw me on a table in a white room. I couldn't beleve it when she told me that these aliens took her arm off and she saw them doing painful things to her twin sister.

I told them that I had a visit too and showed them my hand. I had two tiny unexplainable scabs directly on my veins. I chose not to tell them until later in adulthood that I saw them in the white lights too, and in my dream I also saw that same daughter laying on a table without her arm.

God's honest truth! To this day the twins become uncomfortable talking about it. They don't like to remember the bad experience and say that I am making up my admissions just to scare them. I wonder.

can generations become targets of study? ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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Police officers observe UFO 2 nights consecutively in August of 1974 Per MUFON CT, A police officer of 35 years experience relates that in 1974, August, the midnight shift. 3 am , Officer A. M.

, and officer T.D. saw a brilliantly bright flying object which zigzagged west to east, in East Haven area.

They were on the National Guard rifle range and New Haven Water Company (now known as the Lake Saltonstall, Regional Water Authority) property. The lake is over 100’ deep, and there is a ridge which is on the property and runs parallel to I-95 for several miles with reservoir (Saltonstall) on other side. The two officers observed the object for about 1 minute lost site because of its movement over the aforementioned ridgeline.

After it left, the birds began to chirp, dogs to howl. 2nd night: 5-6+ people, and one officer saw the bright light again, this time flying very low over them, appearing at approximately the same time. Then on the 3rd night, word had gotten out and lots of people were camped out around the rifle range area waiting to see, but it was to no avail.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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I was anywhere from 6 to eight years old when it happened. I was awakened from bed by bright lights and low rumbling noise. I looked out my window and saw a craft hovering just above the trees moving at a slow pace.

It seemed to be more than 100' in length and 50 wide. Bright running lights on edges as well as underneath. It had a flat bottom.

It moved a at a steady pace across my front yard above the trees and then soon disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Saw a huge round object hovering with red light in center,no sound.Took off at a high rate and disappeared As a child I remember being outside going to join my friends,walking down a path that led from the apartment building and looking up and seeing this round object right above me.It was very big with a red light in the center and I think green and white around.

There was no noise such as a helicopter would make.I remember the feeling of being amazed yet scared.I wanted to run but I was frozen in place.

There was a beam of light that came from the object.The next thing I remember was being in the car going home and I still saw the object out the window as if following me.I did not say anything to my parent because I was afraid.

Then it took off at a very high rate,just disappeared with no trail. I am writing this because when I tell people(very few) they think I am making it up but I know what I saw and felt.I'm glad I found this site.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Event 1) Glowing sphere tracing shoreline and crashed into the water. Event 2) Datona Beach FL. Flat hourglass shaped black craft off the top floor of a high rise hotel.

While sitting on the beach in Madison CT I saw what appeared to be a shooting start. 10 minutes later I saw trees in the distance being luminated. 10 minutes after that a sphere approx.

3 feet in diameter and glowing with an egg shell color. It slowly traced the shoreline over approx. 100 feet for several minutes.

It then shot inland at a very high speed with little more than a slight whoosh. 15 minutes later it returned to the same spot. After several minutes of shoreline tracing it seemed to lose control, traced out a 5 point star pattern, each leg being about 50 feet in length and crashed into the water about 50 feet off the shoreline where it broke open.

Inside was what appeared to be a fiber optic "looking" cable bunch about 4 or 5 inches in diameter. Wall thickness appeared to be 1/4 to 1/2 inch, smooth inside and out. It floated on the water for about 10 minutes still glowing.

After 10 minutes it slowly dimmed and sank. In the summer 1981 in Datona Beach I saw an object shaped like a fat flat hour glass on a disk. It appeared black against the clouds and sat right outside the top floor of a high rise hotel.

10 or 15 seconds after I saw it, it made a made a very high speed assent into the clouds in a long lazy "S" shape. I would be interested in finding out if anyone else had seen either of these sightings. Thanks,((name deleted)).