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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 65 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2007 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (14 reports, 21.54% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 26.15% of total).
- 08/16/07 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 3.08% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (37 reports, 56.92% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2007
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2007, 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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possible UFO in New England /Connecticut I was Driving down 95 southbound from providence Ri when around exit 92 in Connecticut near the Mystic Seaport exit. When an object in the sky that i viewed from one of the side mirrors on the truck i was driving seemed to duck and turn in ways that i could not explain. it seemed to be traveling in a south east dirrection when i lost sight of the object.
further down the road towards exit 19 on 95 southbound. this same object that seemed to be following this path appeared in front of my truck near the city of New Haven connecticut near exit 48. it seemed to have an aura of light comming out from all sides.
and sort of a brighter light on top of the object. i seen it turn and do twist like no craft i have ever noticed before. In awe i watched as it seemed to dive an dip in excess of thousands of feet at a time.
As a truck driver i have witnessed all sorts of man made aircraft and in all my years of being on the road this was the first time i ever witnessed such flux in movement side to side front to back. I traveled with this object for 30 minutes or so. and meanwhile other truck drivers on the CB were also making comments about it.
it finaly shot off to the north at a HUGE rate of speed and was gone. I never seen anything like it before. It roared silently at what seemed to be an unimaginable speed and dissapeared just as fast as it arrived ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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4 bright lights, no noise, flying north towards new milford My girlfriend and I were driving home a store in brookfield. As we were going down hawley rd. near Saint Gregory's Church we saw 4 bright lights flying in a northern direction towards new milford.
All lights we white, not blinking, very bright. no noise. we pulled into saint gregory's church parking lot so we could watch it.
it appeared to descend in a northern path, not fade off in the distance but actually descend. Then when it got over the trees in the north it was gone.
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Fire. Simsbury. Radiation.
UFO? No animals, no plants. Fire put out on mountain near Northgate Road, Simsbury, by fire department. Do not believe it was lightning, and I know no one would go up there.
I am surprised they were even able to locate it, let alone detect this fire due to its location. It is a long hike to the spot where this occurred. Possible UFO with gamma radiation - no animals or vegetation in the immediate area and surroundings.
((NUFORC Note: One of many reports submitted by the same source, who elects to remain totally anonymous, and who provides no contact information. Probable hoax?? PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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spherical shiny metallic object over Ridgefield skies ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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For about a few hours, and it is STILL continuing, there is an extremely bright triangle to the left of the moon, that has barely moved. It is not a plane, nor a satellite, due to it's size, brightness, and stillness. It is directly next to the moon, and is moving only a little bit.
((NUFORC Note: Probably a celestial body, we assume. PD)).
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A gold,yellowish light going across the sky in space. up with the stars! Stepped out earlyin the morning to check weather and smoke a cigar and as i always do look up and look at the stars. I know the difference between airliners,planes etc.
No strobes, no red, no green nav lights. Higher than any aircraft of any kind. This was in SPACE traveling past us.
Going very fast. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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STRANGE ORBS OVER LONG WHARF HARBOR? APROX.22:20 LEAVING WORK DRIVING ALONG LONG WHARF DRIVE THE POLICE HAD THE WHOLE STREET BLPCKED OFF. AMBPLEMCES WERE IN THE AREA ABOVE THE BAY HIGH IN SKY WAS A BRIGHT COLORED BALL.
BUTFLYING HORIZONTALY JUST ABOVE THE BOATS DOCKED IN THE BAY WAS A SMALL WHITE BALL ZIPPING ALONG AS IF OSERVING EVERYTHING CLOSE UP. I GOT NERVOUS ROLLED UP MY WINDOW OF MY CAR AND TOOK OFF DOWN THE HIGHWAY HOME. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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TWO TRIANGLE CRAFTS NO SOUNDS OBSERVED, I SAW TWO TRIANGLE SHAPED CRAFTS SILENTLY FLYING OUT THE EASTERN SKIES WITH RED AND GREEN BLINKING LIGHTS HEADING NORTH,.
Full Report Text:
Very unusual light pattern, slow moving object, visible for 40+ minutes. Noticed a strange group of lights that started off as a singular red light, and moved from the center red light outwards to left and right, four lights on either side, starting from the center out, red being the center, it went green, orange, blue. In a constant pattern.
Moved EXTREMELY slowly, not a satellite by any means, or a plane, because it stood still for approximatley 20 min. Moving northeast over Black Rock State Park.
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brightly colored flashing red green and yellow pentagon/ circular shaped object bouncing up and down in the night sky i saw a flashing colored circular light in the night sky. I proceeded to get my binoculars and then saw the object bouncing up and down and flashing with all sorts of yellow, green , and red flashing lights, and at times emitting a bright white light from the side of the circular object. It was only one object observed.
It appeared to be circular or possible pentagon shaped. I called my husband in to see, and he wasnt able to detect what it was either, and both of us were mesmerized.
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two stars rotating 180 degrees and spliting apart Two points of light, just like stars, started rotating in a perfect circle they were 180 degrees apart, then reversed direction staying 180 degrees, then reversed again. Then they stopped and split apart on a line. I lost track of one of them and the other stopped and just looked any star in the night sky.
thats it! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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Close up Sighting 2007 After seeing military officials speak to congress, I am now feeling compelled to speak on an experience myself and three others had when we were younger. Although we were young (ages 9-11) it is an experience we still speak about to this day. It was My sister, myself and two other girls.
The information regarding time and date may be incorrect, it was so long ago I can't remember specifics but I will always remember what we saw. We were all jumping/playing on our trampoline outside of my parent’s home. It is a home on top of one of the taller hills in our area, which is the Connecticut River Valley.
It was a very cloudy night with a thin layer of clouds/fog very low in the sky. At one point we calmed down from jumping and all looked up at the same time due to a light coming from above us, I thought I remembered a very light sound (sounding almost like one of those new hybrid Nissans) however my sister doesn't remember any noise. A very low object probably only about 250-600 ft above us, it was below the clouds.
Due to the distance above us it is hard to determine a size for it, if I had to estimate I’d say maybe 200-300ft from each corner. The object was hovering at a crawling pace. It was a triangle that had 3 large white lights coming from each corner there were also different colored lights coming down from the sides.
The 3 white lights were especially bright I distinctly remember them kind or reflecting off the clouds in a way. This detail is the one I remember the most, it gave the craft a kind of back-lit effect. All of us saw it and ran inside screaming to our parents, from what I remember they laughed at us thinking we were joking.
We grabbed my sister’s digital camera and went back outside to get a picture. With about 20 seconds from the moment the craft left our eyesight to when we were back outside with a camera it was gone. At the pace it was going when we saw it the craft should’ve still been in sight.
Even though we were young and no longer have a relationship with the two other kids we were with that night, anytime my sister or I see one of them and bring it up they always remember. These details are very iffy including the date due to how long ago it was. Another detail that is very rough is the estimation of different sizes or distances I have a hard time doing that now as an adult, I can't imagine I was better at doing so at 9.
My family has always had animals at this point in time I believe we had rodents, bunnies, and a dog. I don’t remember any of them acting any sort of strange way or making noise. However we were not paying attention to them.
I would like to note my childhood home is about 25 miles away from Groton sub-base, I also live about 7 miles as a crow flies from the Chester airport. I don't know if these are important to note, but figure I would.
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At approximately 22:30 on September 7, 2007 my girlfriend and I decided to go for a walk out to the open field in the middle of the camping/forest area at Pachaug State Forest in Voluntown, CT. We went out and proceeded to sit on the rocks surrounding the outside of the field at the Mount Misery campground portion of the forest. The night was perfectly clear and there were no clouds nor was the moon visible.
There weren't any planes either, just a sky full of stars. I was looking up at the Southwest portion of the clearing and my girlfriend had her back to where I was looking and was walking towards me, when out of nowhere a rectangular object with 4 bands of light ranging from red, orange, yellow and pink appeared in the sky roughly about a football field length away from me over the tree line on the other side of the field. It was low flying and above the tree line but not by much.
It started out small, about 1 school bus in length and about 3 in height [relative for that distance away. that is the best measurement I could think of] and then when it moved from right to left in the sky it expanded to about 3 school busses in length. I shouted for her to turn around but when she did it disappeared from site.
I got pretty freaked out and proceeded to walk back to our campsite. I at first tried to convince myself that it was a shooting star but after talking to my girlfriend for a bit we came to the conclusion that what I saw was a possible UFO. We noticed that soon after what I saw, several planes were flying over the area about a half hour later.
Full Report Text:
Bright Round Light Moves North In Night Sky Wallingford,Connecticut No Sound When we were at a families house leaving to go home I noticed in the sky from my car a commercial airliner jet go in a NorthEast Direction it was a verty clear night the stars were present also within the area of sky I was viewing then a bright white light brigher then a Star Spacestation or Satellite I have viewed both in the night sky and know what the pattern of movement is. This object was moving steady in a due North direction passing the Jetliner and my wife and child both looked up at this light which caught there attention aswell. Its possible it could be a Satillite but I have viewed Ufos before and this was very bright within the Earth Atmosphere both much higher then the Commercial Jetliner.
So I deducted what we feel its not. So What is it? i would sure love to know. There was no sound and it faded out as in continued due North.
Thats my report.
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Initially spotted round orange fireball in Western sky, at an altitude approximately you'd see a small plane fly. Traveled East, then turned South until was no longer visible. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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bright light over merritt parkway I Was Driving Back From New Britain On Merritt Parkway. As Icame Into Trumbull, I Noticed A Bright Light Ahead Of Me. I Wondered If It Was An Airplaneor A Planet.
Itsuddenly Got Dim And Then I Noticed A Red Glow As That Of An Airplane. 2 Seconds Later It Disappeared.
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giant vessel w/ 4 horizontal lights makes no sound then stands upright in distance? It was 10:40 pm eastern time when i walked outside with my daughter in arms when i saw 2 red lights horizontal from each other with white lights on each side. the craft was massive in size like a giant zepplin. The object drifted sideways not making a sound.
I went inside to get my wife and we returned to see it just over head going the same speed. as i lost sight of it to a tree i walked around the block only to find the lights now vertical from one another in a straight line drifting off in the sky. evenn though I could not make out the outline of this vessel I believe it was very big, but not a sound?.
Full Report Text:
Green luminesent object with contrail impacts ocean, lights up Guilford CT sky. I am reporting this sighting as a second hand source primarily as a service to those involved in the laudable efforts of this site. Secondly, it was pure coincidence that I happened to hear this story behind this encounter and I fear it would have taken a grand effort to encourage the people involved to file a report.
And so, in brief here are the details of the event as I heard them from three separate adult females living as neighbors in a small coastal enclave in Guilford, CT. At roughly around midnight on August 18, 2007, a comet-like, highly-luminescent and glowing green object appeared descending in a rapid fashion towards the surface of the ocean. The object, which traveled in a consistent, linear trajectory was additionally noted to have a bright contrail which seemed to wax in intensity as it neared its duly inevitable impact.
Upon impact I was told there was no discernable noise but a great flash of light that illuminated the entire panorama of the community and ocean. When the witnesses were questioned about how certain they were of the object’s identity as a comet or a meteor all three seemed to balk. Although none admitted to witnessing anything extraordinary about the object's actions, they were wholly unwilling to commit to excluding the object as being something else, i.
e. a military craft, plane crash or UFO. ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the source of the report for his/her having taken the time to preserve the information, and for having shared it with our Center! PD)).
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green light shoots through the sky turning to white and quickly dissapears driving on the highway a bright green light caught our attention. Looking up at the right the green light seemed to shoot toward the horizon fading to white and suddenly dissapearing, like a flash the t.v.
would make when turning off. No stars were out at all the moon was not visable, the sky was lit orange from city lights. The flash was too big and to fast to be a shooting star.
It seemed to be headed in a direction.
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Neon green object dissapears in night sky we were driving down the street in the dark with a completly clear sky. out from behind the trees ahead of us a giant neon green colored egg shaped object caught our attention. we saw it for almost less than a second, but we saw that it was flying in mid sky, too low and too fast for an airplane and at a weird angle.
we only saw the object once and it never re-appeared. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax.
PD)).
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2007 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 | 14 reported sightings | 21.54% of all reports |
Circle | 9 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
Fireball | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2007 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 | 13 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
August | 10 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
September | 9 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2007 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 | 17 reported sightings | 26.15% of all reports |
Sunday | 11 reported sightings | 16.92% of all reports |
Friday | 9 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
Wednesday | 8 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
Tuesday | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2007 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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08/16/07 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
07/07/07 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
08/18/07 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
06/30/07 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
09/15/07 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2007 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 | 37 reported sightings | 56.92% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 8 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2007
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2007
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.