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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 80 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2011 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (16 reports, 20.00% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (14 reports, 17.50% of total).
- 07/04/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 5.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (44 reports, 55.00% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2011
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2011, 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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9 orange lights hovering above the trees Saw 9 bright orange lights over the trees forming 3 triangular shapes. Lights did not move or blink, they stayed very bright. Each light then faded one at a time very slowly until all were gone.
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30+ orange-red floating glowing lights in sky my neighbor, my wife and i saw orange red glowing lights floating south to north changing direction floating upwards increasing speed and eventually disappearing with no trace. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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A big circle greenish object out my window randomly dissapeared and it was low I was laying in bed watching TV, and at the corner of my eye there was this circle type green thing out of my window, I got a closer look and it was kind of slightly going downward and to the right, then within 3 seconds it dissapeard out of no where. If your looking outside it was smaller than a golf ball but bigger than a pea. It was like gliding at a slow place near here and I know it wasnt a plane or helicopter because it would'nt dissapear and it was way to low to be one.
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Green light traveling fast I was driving on Huntington rd towards Rt 8. Looked up to left and saw a bright green light traveling at an extreme rate of speed down towards earth. Lost sight after a few seconds.
Looked to be over stratford when i lost sight.
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3 slow to fast moving red lights hovering over manchester At @9:00pm we saw a red light we thought was a light from a tower, but there aren't any towers on our street. We watched the light and a second one appeared next to the other one. In the blink of an eye they were right on the side of our car.
They hovered over the area for @5 mins, then a third one appeared in the blink of an eye next to the other two. They made no sound what so ever. Two lights left and the third stayed and they made until they were almost out of sight, then the third one left faster then I have ever seen anything fly.
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Huge bright orange semi-circle hovering over house Looking out of my back yard, which is heavily wooded with some houses, I saw a huge and bright orange semi-circle hovering over neighbor’s house. It looked almost like a planet and to verify it wasn’t the moon, I went to the front of my house. When I returned, it was gone.
It was there for about 2 minutes.
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At about 9 pm, we observed a red-orange fireball moving slowly across the sky. At about 9 PM, we saw a fireball moving slowly across the sky through our bedroom window. We went outside to observe.
It hovered for about 30 seconds, then proceeded, turning, and traveling southeast. It disappeared beyond the tree-line, then returned a few minutes later. It traveled over our street again, then turned and disappeared in the same direction as before.
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What Did I Just See! Waterbury CT. 11/24/11 On Thanksgiving night I hear my father who went out on my deck for a cigarette screaming to come outside. As my wife, my father-in-law, and my mother and me run out we can see two bright orange lights hovering less than a mile from the house.
My father who doesn’t believe in anything like UFOs starts to tell us that these two lights have been there for a while. Hearing my father explain this I can see he was very serious about these lights and I can hear the fear in his voice. The rest of us can’t believe what we are seeing and start to question if it’s a helicopter (nope they are to close together and there’s no sound), flares (it would of went out by now,) whatever explanations we are trying to come up with it is being tossed out the window.
As we figure out what we are seeing the orange lights suddenly move to the right of us. They move simultaneously together gracefully through the sky, we try to follow them bobbin are heads trying to see through the trees when all of sudden the lights disappear. We all look at each other laughing trying to explain what we have just seen.
A day goes by and I try to see if maybe the local news or news paper put something out there. Nothing yet, I can’t believe we would be the only ones in town who have witnessed this event. Either way it was definitely a Thanksgiving night to remember! ((NUFORC Note: For some reason not clear to us, witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)).
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orange fieball moving in a steady line. Stopped and dissapeared with no trace/tail. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Very large light in the distance, stationary- thought it was a star. It started moving very slow, then heard a strong engine. It was moving extremely fast above me to the right.
It appeared round or saucer shaped with four lights and one red. No plane I have ever seen.
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watching object jump around sky for hours There is something bright like venus which is so large you can see it turn. It seems to continue to go from a bright star like object to turning red and blue and strobing colors. It is making large leep frog aka like a water bug on the surface of a pond.
I have been watching it stop, start, jump, make random movements, small streak and back to its spot where it left off. It still is there as I type this. right now, it looks like a diamond and pure white, no flashes.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star. PD)).
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Orange burning disks or balls. Slow moving, high altitude in-line formation of orange burning 'balls'. Extinguished after about 15 minutes, 2 objects seen, one after another coming from same angle in the sky (from SW).
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Zigzagging object In the western sky just after sundown - a glowing object low on the horizon. Took the binoculars and went back outside to get a better look. It was still there and when seen through the binoculars it appeared to be a red and green sphere that would suddenly start zigzagging around.
I called my husband outside and he saw it also.
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Bright blue and green lights while large shadow hovers over neighborhood. 10:00pm EST Radiant blue and vibrant green lights shooting across landscape during storm and power outage. Large shadow covering most of our neighborhood while these lights appeared.
Same lights appear 3 miles away at a friends and family members neighborhood only they are more intense and prolonged. Approx 5 minutes after our sighting. Although power was out bc of the intense storm, digital clock on oven goes on while these lights beam onto landscape.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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A blue flash in the sky that created a power outage. I was looking out the window (It was dark) and a 3 second metalic blue lit up the whole sky. It created a 30 second power outage.
It was NOT lightning. It had been snowing. The other witness heard a boom.
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STREEKING WHITE COMET LIKE OBJECTS ONE GOING DOWN TO EARTH OTHER HEADING ACROSS SKY NORTH AND LEVEL. WHILE DRIVING HOME ON I-95 SOUTH I SAW A FIRST UFO SHOOTING DOWN FROM THE UPPER SKY. IT WAS ALL WHITE AND LOOKED LIKE A STREAKING COMET BUT WITH ITS TAIL DISAPEREING AS IT RACED DOWNWARD.
THE SECOND ONE WAS STREAKING ACROSS THE SKY NORTH AND WAS THE SAME SHAPE AND APPERANCE AS THE FIRST ONE. PS I HAVE BEEN SEEING THESE THINGS FOR A YEAR NOW PLEAS IF SOMEONE HAS SEEN THESE THINGS AND KNOWS WHAT THEY MIGHT BE PLEAS SEND INFO TO ((e-address deleted)). ((NUFORC Note: We wonder whethere the objects might have been contrails behind a high-altitude aircraft.
PD)).
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Two large, bright , white lights traveling extremely fast in the same circular motion, opposite each other - loud whooshing sound 500 10-23-11 Sunday morning got up at 6:07, headed outside to the backyard with the dog at around 6:10ish. There was a lot of white gray cloud cover this morning. There was a fairly loud, distinctive whooshing sound, I looked up into the northwest sky and saw two lights, two large, bright, white lights, traveling extremely fast in a circle, perfectly opposite each other, every one and a while crossing each others paths, but remaining in a circular motion – (the sound was not that of a helicopter or airplane and the speed the lights were traveling were extremely fast – and perfectly circular even when the every then and again the two lights would cross paths through the center, but while remaining in that circular formation) I would have to say the size of the lights were very large, it would be hard to guess, as I was looking up from the ground but I would have to say at least the size of a house or school and the size of the circle would have to have been at lease the of a football field, but probably larger.
I stood there watching for at least four to five minutes, but had to go in to shower, when I went back outside the lights were gone (by 6:30a.m.).
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Green Fireball Sighted October 20, 2011 9:30-10:00 P.M. Trumbull, CT.
From my viewpoint near the west end of Whitney Ave. Trumbull I saw a greenish fireball traverse low in the sky traveling west. It appeared higher than treetop level against the sky and it lasted 2 to 3 seconds.
I am not sure if this was some sort of pyrotechnic or really something more astral in nature. There was no sounds Just wondering if there were additional sightings.
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The sighting in CT was prophesied on my Facebook on the 20th of October. http://www.facebook.
com/#!/beckah.cook There is more in detail thread on my Pastor's wife page. Excuse the typos I was using a handheld device.
I let my Pastor's wife and Former spouse's family know.
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bigger than a plane or any aircraft.and as bright or brighter than the north star.or even the space station.
I was sitting outside on my step and i happen to look up and i saw from n where it looked like the biggest white star slowly traveling east in the sky. i listened for engines of planes at the time there were none.silent,,just huge white crystal looking star like thing slowly traveling,,,as i watched it i saw it just slowly disapear into no where,,its not like lights of planes where shut off ,,it faded,,then i started to notice all the planes that were in the distance and then a helicopter flew by and it was absolutely nothing in caomparison to these,,,it was much bigger than all of them.
i looked and looked just to make sure i saw what i was looking at.i am saying this thing was like the north star traveling through the sky but hundreds of times bigger.i was actually just outside and saw a shooting star while on phone with ufo guy from here.
and was nothing like what i saw.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2011 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 | 16 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Circle | 8 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.25% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.25% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.25% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2011 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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October | 16 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
July | 15 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
June | 9 reported sightings | 11.25% of all reports |
March | 8 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 8.75% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2011 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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Wednesday | 14 reported sightings | 17.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 13 reported sightings | 16.25% of all reports |
Saturday | 13 reported sightings | 16.25% of all reports |
Monday | 13 reported sightings | 16.25% of all reports |
Thursday | 10 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Friday | 10 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 8.75% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2011 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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07/04/11 | 4 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
03/01/11 | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
07/30/11 | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
11/02/11 | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
10/05/11 | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2011 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 | 44 reported sightings | 55.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 14 reported sightings | 17.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 3.75% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2011
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2011
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.