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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 23 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2000 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 26.09% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 26.09% of total).
- 07/11/00 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.70% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (11 reports, 47.83% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2000
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2000, 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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Big, triangular craft with 3 large lights flying quickly across the sky and joines two similar objects to form a huge triangular format I was sitting in my hot-tub outside when I spotted a large triangular object not far above me. At first I though it was a plane of some kind, but there was no sound at all. Also, it was curving and swirving across the sky ver quickly like a plane couldn't manuvere.
Then it flew ovew and pointed down behind the trees and two small white blurs jouned it making an up-side-down triangular formation in the sky. -I then got scared and ran inside.
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object displaying what appeared to be flames appeared out of the north at 1200-1500 feet We had just gotten into the hot tub when my husband and I both noticed a very bright light coming towards us from the north. At first we thought it was a helicopter with unusually bright anti-collision lights, but the light wasn't white, it was yellow/orange, like a campfire. The size at first was approximately 3 to 4 times the size of Venus, which was visible in the west at that time.
We turned off the radio to hear it, but there was no sound. As we watched, it gradually travelled south over the house, and we were still thinking it was a helicopter, but that is was on fire inside. As it travelled south, it gradually slowed down.
A bit past our chimney, the object stopped, and just hovered in place for about 2 minutes, while we watched it flicker. There was no pulse or regularity to the flickering. The object began to move again, this time towards the northeast, and faster.
Then it appeared to turn away from us. The "flames" were no longer so easily seen, and it ascended and disappeared. We live in a very heavy aircraft traffic area, and this object did not display any normal navigation or anti-collision lights.
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On saturday 11/4/00 at 13:45 I took my children to the new england air museum in Conn. I was filming the days events with my cam corder .We all went out side of the building ,it was a beatifull day blue skys and warm.
I decided to film a passenger Jet that was flying due west at 30 thousand feet.the Contail of this jet was standing out against the blue sky.As I was looking into my view finder and zooming in on the passenger jet a bright object appears in the view box and last about 8 seconds .
At the time I did not think to much of it .After returning home we made a carefull fram by fram inspection of the vidio tape . we made some very interesting observations .
the object appears as awhit ball or oval shaped object and is located on the right side of the passenger jets contail. The object then goes behind the jets contail and reappears on the other side of the contail.We then followed the object fram by fram for 6 frams.
this object has just covered 30 thousand feet in 3 seconds.The object while decending made a sharp U turn.The object than percedes across my view finder for 26 frams.
((NUFORC Note: We will attempt to obtain a copy of the tape for inspection. PD)).
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A very clear object that was covered with lights, hovering in the air to create a triangle with two planets, its lower lights blinked. Curious Light I am writing this document 8 hours after I witnessed a curious light in the sky. It was at 6:50 AM on Monday, October 23, 2000.
Walking down to the bus stop, I noticed a solid, bright light in the east sky. The day before, I read a report stating that most people mistake UFO's for Venus because they do not expect the planet to be so bright. I ruled out that the light was probably Venus.
I saw a second light, lower than Venus and to the right. Dimmer, and smaller, but bright nonetheless, and solid. I looked at the sky with concentration.
Blue, not a cloud in sight for miles, everything perfectly clear. I looked at the moon which appeared to be in the south. It was a crescent moon, and looked light a crooked smile.
This is when I saw the light. A bright, flickering object in the sky off in the distance. It was on the left side, lower than Venus, to create an equilateral triangle.
I stopped and stared at the "UFO";, it clearly wasn't a planet, or an airplane. In fact as I looked at the object, I figured that it was blinking about 4 times a second. The entire object wasn't blinking.
It had other lights, and only a portion of lights, on the bottom half of it, were blinking. I wasn't walking anymore, and noticed that it was moving back and forth slowly and unsteadily. Then came an airplane.
In a relative distance to the UFO. Dark, with those slow blinking lights that anyone can spot and identify. A bird flew by, plainly.
A bird nor an airplane, nor a planet can be this strange object I saw in the sky today, that formed a triangle with 2 (what I believe were) planets. I am very skeptical about this strange light being anything other than a light, or an object in the sky. But that strange, rapidly blinking light is unexplainable.
I have seen strange lights in the sky before, but this is the first time I believe it couldn't be anything else, not a flare, a plane, a planet, the moon, a balloon, or spotlight. It was some sort of craft. This is a real mystery.
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5 objects sited in Eastern sky On our way to dinner we observed 5 objects in the eastern sky. It was light out. The object were like a dark grey color.
They were in a "V" formation almost like a flock of geese. The leading object dipped then flew up and went between the other 4 then disapeared. The remaining 4 object went into several different formations.
At one point two of them seperated from the other two. They remained like that for about 3 minutes. We judged the distance to be about 15 feet between the pairs.
Then they just disapeared. WE TOOK A PICTURE. We had a digital camera with us and my husband was able to capture one fairly good picture.
At the time he took the picture you can see three of them. We don't know how to make the objects bigger in the picture, but tomorrow my son is comming over to see if he can.
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triangular ufo flew overhead I was walking outside on my grandfather's farm and noticed how deathly silent it was. Normally it was full of animal noises, but this night it wasn't. I looked up at the stars and was extremely surprised to see a triangle flying overhead! As it slowly flew above me, time seemed to stay still.
When it disappeared over the tree tops I ran to tell my grandfather but he didn't believe me and he hadnt seen it. The triangle UFO was black and had lights around the edges. It seemed to be the size of a commercial airliner.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).
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((NUFORC Note: Witness reports fireball. No details in this report. PD)).
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Golf Course sighting of Bright Light Disc At La Quinta Golf Course. they have two 18 hole courses we were on the course nearest the entrance and condos. We saw the UFO on the 11th hole, it is a slight dog leg left with water on the left, condo's on the right.
Standing on the Tee box looking down the hole about 423 yds we saw a bright light almost too bright to look at. It seemed to have a round/disc shape. This light was hovering above the green eraticaly moving up and down about 10 to 15 feet at a time.
The size of this light was within the size of the green no more than 25-30 feet across. The thickness of the light was about 3-4 feet. The erratic movement stopped after about 25 seconds the light moved up about 30 feet stopped, then moved towards us on the Tee box it made no sound we felt no wind, the light went above us and between us as we both turned inward to watch the UFO go by.
It gained altitude and speed we watched it to about 150 feet high and maybe 800 yards in distance when it dissapered. We traveled down towards the green and saw a couple (man and wife?) gardening at the condo closest to the "Green" . We asked them if they saw what we saw ( it was very close to them) They looked at us as if we were joking with them and said they saw / heard nothing.
A few days later I heard, third hand that UFO's had been reported in Plam Springs the same day. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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awesome it was magical and i hope they come back during a rock show in town a giant craft flew over head and stayed there for five hours everyone in town must of seen it but there was only about 400 people at the venue ((NUFORC Note: Anonymous report. No other reports of this alleged incident, to the best of my knowledge. PD)).
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REAL SIGHTING V SHAPE UFO I was driving along in was 8:45 it was dark. We came to a stop light i was the first to see it was a V shape. It flew tip first the only saw it because it flew across the moon and the moons light behind it made it so i could see it but ones it let the moons lifhtit was gone but about 10 min later ther was 2 or 3 jets it the air rite in the same area.
the ufo's V was very long to it was not any or our jets plus ther was no lights.SO THATS ALL I GOT THER OUT THER I HAVE NO DOUT IN MY MINED 100% REAL.
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My two brothers and I witnessed two distinct, dark yellow lit, triangular objects stay still and then suddenly move to the left. At first my brother (age 20) called me outside because he said he saw a UFO. I didn't quite believe him until a few seconds later he came inside and dragged me out.
I couldn't tell exatly how many lights where on it, but there appeared to be 3 in a triangular shape in the darkest yellow I have ever seen on an aircraft. It didn't appear to be moving and my other brother (age 18) got our telescope. As he was gone I watched the object move quickly to the left behind some trees.
It didn't dart across very fast but moved a lot faster than any plane I had seen before, and it had done this after not moving for quite a while. When my brother came out we could barely make it out behind the trees. It was then that we noticed another object looking like the other that was not there just a second before.
We weren't looking when it appeared but it must have moved very fast to its position as 3 of us were watching the skies. We ran down our driveway with the telescope so we could see behind the trees and get a good look at the objects, but once we got down, they were no where to be found. We waiting for about 40 minutes but there were no signs of any others.
It was then that I came in I searched for a UFO Reporting Center.
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within a ten minute segment 3 seperate ojects appeared. they were bluish white single lights.they flew in opposite directions.
one went east one notheast the other west. they were ey brigh foraout1 seconds then the briiliance went out, however i continued to track them thru my binoculars. they appeared to be large spheres.
they moved across the sky in about 20- 30 seconds. they appeared to be at an altitude above small planes but below high flying jets. i have seen these on many occasions recently and all of the witnesses have no idea what they are.
sometimes they pulsate and sometimes not. when they do show up it is usually in clusters within a 10-20 minute segment as was this sighting. my friends just call them star like objects.
even with binoculars they still appear as orbs. any exlanation would be helpful.
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It seemed to hover ,change color and take off I was outside for a walk and I saw some kind of craft that looked like two bowls or plates put together. It just seemed to hover over some trees in the distance. Then it satrted to change colors and it started to flash a little.
I just stood there and watched the craft. And then it seemed to take off suddenly really fast. ((NUFORC Note: We do not know whether the witness means a morning, or evening, sighting.
PD)).
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A slow moving white light that came to a halt and then formed a circle of five small white lights which rotated in a clockwise directio I saw a slow moving white light traveling silently from north to south. At first I thought it was an aircraft, but then the light came to a complete halt, and then it formed a circle of five small white lights which proceeded to rotate in a clockwise direction. After a couple of minutes, the lights recombined into one unit and continued to travel in a southerly direction.
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It was a bright light that took off at a fast speed. I was watching tv and i looked out the window and saw an object in the sky and I thought that it was just a star or a planet. Then as I looked at it again i noticed it starting to go up in the sky twords the right.
So I told my brother to come see the object in the sky while it was starting to go up higher than it was before. So we went outside to watch it and it started to fly around for a while,then went back to it's "starting point". Then it started to start moving again then some aircrafts that looked like airplanes start to chase it.
than it took off at an amasing speed and appered to dissaper.
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A sphere seen low in the sky hovering,but making no noise. Vanishes in an instant with no sign of propulsion. Just gone.
I was visiting my bro.inlaw with my kids in Naugatuck, CT, USA. Approx.
2pm EST. The house sits at the top of one of the highest points in Naugatuck. My kids were all outside playing on a swing-set when something spherical in the sky caught my eye.
I was on the deck while my kids played outside on that swing-set. I saw a craft just hovering and not moving or making a sound, in the sky. It was just hanging perfectly still in the sky.
The craft was spherical with a brassy like color. I heard nothing at all coming from this spherical craft. I could definitely see what looked like "L" shaped individual panels making up the sphere.
I could see what looked like divots attaching the "L" panels together to make up the sphere. It was approx 25yards away, maybe closer, from where i was standing, in the sky. It was very close to me.
I starred for a few minutes and then called out to my Bro.inlaw to come take a look with me. I hadn't taken my eyes OFF this craft, all the while asking my Bro.
inlaw to come out and look at this sphere with me. We both did not know what we were actually seeing. At which point i asked him to get binoculars so we could get a closer look at it.
My eyes still fixed on the craft. I did NOT take my eyes off of it, at all. But, at the same time, my kids were calling up to me.
"mom, mom." I finally looked in their direction, and said"what?", and when i looked back.the sphere was gone.
in an instant! In one second! There were No signs of noise or trails in the sky. I even looked thru the binoculars to see if i could find it. But to no avail .
There was no sign of it on the horizon, or above it, at all. But as to where this sphere went, neither of us knew. I looked in every direction possible.
It just vanished, in an instant. I believe that perhaps a cloaking device may have made this craft disappear. Only because nothing that I know of, mechanically, can vanish so very quickly without some sign of it travelin! through the air.
I also had a feeling that they were watching me also. Because it didn't vanish, or even move, until i looked away, for that split second. No noise, no smoke, no trails in the sky.
It had just disappeared into thin air. A spectacular sighting. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.
PD)).
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only saw it for a few seconds it had a mass of lights mostly white with a few red. it was rooftop level and heading North East.
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Large saucer shape object moving slowly across the sky, bright illumination which appeared to come from the inside, red light on the bottom part of the saucer, lots of white light on the object The saucer object was witnessed by myself (legal secretary), my husband (computer salesman) and my daughter (junior in high school). We observed a saucer shape object (by that I mean a classic shaped saucer) which was illuminated from the inside, had a red light at the bottom and lots of white lights around it with a row around the middle. Coming out of the trees it looked like a glowing light when it came into view, crystal clear with no obstructions, we could not believe our own eyes, it looked like a flying saucer, we were paralyzed with shock.
We kept saying no this is not right, it must be a blimp or plane or something, but we saw what we saw. It flew in a complete straight line and we followed it for approximately 10 minutes. When it went behind the trees we went looking for it, but it was gone nothing we could not understand were it went it was too big to hide.
We are normal people who do not see flying saucers, but I am telling you we know what we saw and unless somebody shows me the object again, it was definetly a flying saucer.
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Ufo Sighted Very Bright Lights Bristol,Connecticut,U.S.A.
Ufo News Report Connecticut U.S.A.
as follows Thursday March 31st,2000 at 9:45 pm est a ufo was sighted by adam 11 years old from Bristol,Ct. The sighting lasted according to ((deleted)) for only 2 minutes. The ufo moved from northwest to southwest then south.
Bright lights were seen from his driveway that at first looked like a helicopter.The colours he described were blue,red,pink,yellow,and green. The craft made very little noise almost like wind blowing.
The ufo was 200 feet from ground level.((deleted)) was looking at this craft from between 1500 to 2000 feet away from the end of his driveway in front of his house.The sighting of the craft was between allentown and fall mountain roads in bristol,ct.
A large wooded area is where the object was seen and at one point the object sent a large bean of bright light toward the wooded area with that had various colours which circled the wooded area with that two minutes and the ufo itself went in circles as well then disappeared.
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Saw a large dark object 50 ft across hovering silently in the air with three lights on the bottom searching the ground. I was driving to a friends house to return an bass amp comming back from a weekend in Boston. I missed the exit that I would have normally taken to get to his house so I ended up going a different way.
As I came up to a 3 way stop that was well know to me it began to lightly hail. I was listening to a cassette on my tape player the song was Lifeboy by a band called Phish. Then I saw it.
a dark shape about 50 ft long hovering silently about 30 ft in the air above the house directly infront of the stop sign I was stopping for. The object had three clear white lights that were attached to the bottom of this giant floating object and they were searching the ground for something. I could see the lights themselves not just what was eminating from them.
I was confused by what I was seeing because I was not seeing something that I did not think it could be real, but it was as real as anything i have ever seen before or since. The experience did not last long because I turned a hard left to go to my friends house not knowing if I was about to be abducted or something. I returned to the same location as I drove home about 3 minutes later and it was as if nothing had ever been there.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2000 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 | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2000 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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July | 6 reported sightings | 26.09% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2000 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 | 6 reported sightings | 26.09% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2000 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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07/11/00 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
07/20/00 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
04/14/00 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
12/11/00 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
07/01/00 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2000 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 | 11 reported sightings | 47.83% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2000
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2000
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.