Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1987

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The wife and I were driving home when we saw in the west a "V" shaped pattern of lights flying north. It then made a 180 deg turn to the south. We raced down to the main road to follow it.

As we neared Lakeville it was just dropping out of sight. We went into the lounge at Interlaken Inn and reported to our friends. They too had ran outside to watch it.

It flew over at abt 1000 ft. and made no sound. The nite was clear & many small planes were flying.

The lights were very white and steady. This was the second time I've seen it.

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I remember it being in June of 1987 but the actual day is hard to remember. There is a stretch of road that runs through Burlington Ct called rout 4. Located off this road and between Johnnycake Airport and the Burlington Trout Hatchery is a stretch of winding roads that takes you into the direction of Nepaug Reservoir.

Along these roads which has zero street lights and is very wooded is a clearing that overlooks a small section of the reservoir. On this night my brother, his friend and myself were sitting on the hood of my car looking up at the night sky that was loaded with stars. I remember talking about the Challenger accident (6 months eariler) that for me was still fresh in my mind.

My brothers friend was the first to notice a star like object crossing the night sky. Looking in the direction he was pointing I observed this object cross the entire sky within seconds as far as the eye could see than turn around to make a pass back in our direction. This happend 4 times in a matter of 1 minute.

On what was to be its final pass we noticed in its path was a much larger object, the best way I can describe it to you is it looked like a circle formation of star like objects. As the moving craft reached this larger circle (maintaining its same observed speed) we thought it would continue going but when it reached the outer edge of this larger circle it was just gone. At that moment we looked at each other amaized at what we had seen, and over to our left, above the water and small hilltops were these three(3) fire balls.

The formation between these 3 fireballs and our location was a diamond. We looked at the objects for at least 30 minutes. Within this time frame each one moved very slowly, the one to our far left seemed to drift straight back and away from us than it was gone like it flipped off a switch.

The object to our far right descended straight down behind the tree line. At that moment we noticed a small plane making its landing approach at the near by airfield, thats when I made the joakingly remark and said (pointing to the object dead ahead of us) "Watch, I bet this one will bounce" Just as I said it, the object started to bounce itself behind the small hilltop. These objects were at the same level as the small plane was at the time of its landing approach to the airfield.

By this time we were speechless as to what we saw. At that moment we heard a noise that came from the very dark woods behind us that sounded as if something fell from the top of the trees and hit every branch on its way down. If you had a stop watch at that moment I think it would have been a new worlds record for getting into a car, locking the doors, turning the key and getting our asses outta there.

We drove to Torrington Ct which is about a 30 minute drive, within 10 minutes of getting into town we saw another friend of my brothers, we told her what we had seen, drove her back up to the sight and each one of the fireballs were back in the exact place we saw them the first time. After a few minutes they each began to move again as they did before. We never looked up into the sky to see if the star formation was still there and whatever had made the noise that scared us outta there in the first place I guess was gone cause we didn't hear any noises again.

The person we found to show her what we had seen had seen enough and wanted to go back after observing the objects for only about 15 ! minutes. Whatever we had seen that night, in the sky and over the reservoir were not low or high flying air planes except for the one noted. As far as what fell out of the tree, who knows, but I bet it hurt.

((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD)).

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WE ARE NOT ALONE middlebury,ct june 11 1987 about 9:00pm. before i begin,after i saw this space ship i went to yugoslavia the very next day for 3 months on vacation,when i returned, a few freinds of mine told me it was in the paper the very next day.Now,a month ago wich would be august of 2000 i went to the waterbury library to look up the news paper of june 12 1987.

when i observed the newspaper article it said that a lot of people phoned freinds,family,newspaper and the police of flying saucers in the sky. The state police of southbury said that people were not seeing a space ship and that they were seeing (6) army planes coming from new york flying close together low to the ground and that they had their navigation lights on. THE STATE POLICE ARE LIARS!!! i saw this space ship on june 11 1987 right in front of my house!! NOW!! what i saw was a space ship from another planet standind in mid air about a quarter mile away from me and maybe a 100 feet over the ground.

i was soo scared!! it was about the size of a little league baseball feild. it was not moving,it was just standing there in the air motion less and no sound whats so ever. i could see it perfectly,i could see the shape of the craft perfectly.

it was just like a typical flying saucer as if you put 2 dinner plates together. it was to my west. it had flourescent green and red lights!! there were 3 green flourescent lights that were rectangular just like windows but they were not blinking,they were lit up and i could also see rails inside the green windows,what i mean by rails i mean rails that you use to hold on to when you walk.

there could have been more windows but i can only see 1 side of the space ship.the red lights i seen were also rectangular in shape under the green windows and they were moving. the red lights were in the center of the disk moving away from each other around the center of the ship and would meet exactlly where they met before.

at this point i am completely confused and i thought i was dreaming. here i am standing in front of my hous! e along with my younger brother looking at a space ship from another planet. the space ship was in the air for over a half hour just lowering alttitude a millimeter every minute or two.

we stood there and looked at it untill it finally landed behind the trees. i was outside for a good 2 hours but never saw the space ship again. it was still on the ground doing something,i dont know what.

any way i'm real scared!!! with a little help i can pin point this landing site and i think i can pin point the exact location of this landing site. before i finish this FACT of my close encounter i wanna say two things. first; still to this day i have not seen any thing like i seen on the night of june 11 1987,not even on movies,not even on cartoons,not even on documentaries,photos,or any thing or those soo called bogus moments that people have video taped.

i really do feel that if i had a picture camera or video camera that night of june 11 1987,it would have proved and scared the whole world!! 2nd; i dont know what god is up to, i mean i dont know why he is sending aliens here to visit us. i'm real scared, it still makes me nervous and scared and my hair stand up when i think or talk about it, it's even making me scared right now re-reading my encounter. please, help mee, i just dont know what to think any more.

i really appreciate you for taking the time reading my close encounter. ((NUFORC Note: We are grateful for the report. We would like to read the article, and will request a copy from the witness.

PD)) ((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION FROM WITNESS)) hi, i am the one who sent my close encounter experiance to you i had on june 11 1987 . i wrote to many ufo sites and i just found your site and read my incredible story that you placed on your site. the reason i am writing to you again is because you asked for a copy of the newspaper article i clipped from this incredible craft i seen.

i will gladley send it to you if you just e-mail me your adress. i have to send it by mail because i have no scanner. my email adress is ((address deleted)) thank you for beleiving my story and placing it on your site.