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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 156 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2012 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (31 reports, 19.87% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 12.82% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 21.79% of total).
- 10/13/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.21% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (86 reports, 55.13% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2012
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2012, 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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Five Orange Fireballs over Cromwell, Ct My wife and I were heading home from dinner and when we pulled onto our street, we saw four orange lights, almost like fireballs in the sky. We noticed them moving slowly in a northwest direction approximately 800-1000 feet high. We ended up pulling over and I shot video with my phone however based on the distance of the objects, the quality isn't that good.
As we were shooting the video, we noticed that one by one that seemed to turn blue in color then completely disappear. When we got home, I took our dog out and looked up into the sky and one was directly over our house, approximately 500 feet high. Although I was able to see it clearly, I still can't explain what it was.
I know we saw was something extraordinary because my wife is a huge skeptic regarding this type of stuff and she couldn't offer a logical explanation. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Yellow lights forming a triangle witnessed by 2 near fairfield ct We were driving to New haven on 95 from NYC and I saw this bright yellow lights, I showed it to my husband. Since we were on a highway we couldn't stop but I turned back to see and it looked like a triangle.
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4 red glowing orbs in the southern sky. They didnt move then just disappered.
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Fireball UFO seen by two witnesses in Dayville, CT I was outside having a cigarette on an extremely cold and windy evening. It was cloudy with no stars in the sky. My house is located in a woodsy area.
Suddenly I noticed one large fireball glowing over the tree line. It seemed as though 2 smaller triangular shaped fireballs detached away from the larger one. I called my girlfriend out to see it and by the time she got outside it had dipped below the treeline but she could still see the lights behind the tops of the trees.
Then the light just disappeared.
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Bright light high in sky moving extremely fast from West to East over Granby, CT Looked into the west sky and noticed an extremely fast moving bright light - very high in the sky - moving west to east at a high rate of speed. Single, bright light - almost looked like a star. Crossed my entire viewing area in under 2 minutes.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Triangular Shape aircraft, with square cutout in rear. Silent, no lights, slow moving. Large.
Noticed a Large Black Craft with no noise, Heading North, and a detailed mental description of exact shape. Triangular shape with Square center cutout in rear.
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Ball of light moving downward quickly. Went behind clouds that seemed to possibly in the Newtown or Monroe area. Was driving south on 25 (the highway part), and saw a bright light decend behind clouds quickly.
Unusual speed.
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Pulled over to the beach to watch the water at night. I noticed an object with what seemed to be trailing flames falling pretty quickly in the distance (over the Northern CT coast.) I thought maybe it was a meteor but it didn't seem to be falling at the speed of gravity.
The trailing flames disappeared and it seemed to hover for a while as a red light in the distance. Eventually it disappeared into haze. it never landed or flew away.
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One orb of light ascends quickly into sky while another descends behind tree line. At about 945pm on 11/24/2012, four of us were driving through Bolton. While driving over the bridge that crosses over 384 on route 85/Bolton center road, we noticed a white, glowing penny sized orb to our left, which would have probably placed it nearly above the highway.
This object hovered and made no noise that we know of. We noticed it only because it was in our line of sight, and seemed too big to be a star - though otherwise this is what it looked like. After crossing the bridge, curiosity made two of us look back, at which point the orb seemed to shrink to nearly a pinpoint, which we realized meant that it had ascended upwards.
No sooner had I (the driver and writer of this report) turned my head forward again to watch the road, a second object was observed by all of us directly ahead/in front of us, no more than a mile away. This object was also a glowing white orb, but basketball sized. It descended below the treeline pretty much on route 85 itself! We drove along route 85 to see if we could find it, but to no avail.
I would be VERY interested if anyone knows of any military operations going on in this area on this date. If not, then I cannot explain what we saw. NOTE: Airplanes do frequently fly to bradley airport in the area we saw these orbs, and we saw such a one at this very time.
The orbs were clearly different than the airplane. Of the four observers, one is a licensed funeral director/embalmer with 2 degrees: one in applied science, and one in liberal arts. The other three are all high school graduates.
One is a case manager at a homeless shelter. One is a teacher's aid working on a degree in education. The last is unemployed.
None of the four have vision problems or any sort of hallucination-causing mental illness, nor were any of the four on drugs.
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Bright orange fiery orb Saw fire-like orb in the NE sky, traveling north, fairly quickly. Witnessed by 2 people. Very bright orange.
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White stationary spot/ plane nearing Typically a late morning commuter to Windsor CT (via 91 N or 202 through Simsbury CT), several planes trailing in the otherwise blue skies are now a norm to see albeit odd seeming. They seem more prevalent than in years past but have been chalking it up to personal exposure to more open skies as summertime was spent kayaking several CT lakes/rivers and new commute toWindsor. This Friday afternoon around 3:30 pm, traveling E on DayHill Road to stop for coffee, viewed 5 plane trails and 2 active planes in the clear blue sky.
As I stopped at a red light, I observed one plane traveling nearly vertical on the left side of the moon. The 2nd active plane trailing captured my eye as it was so high and juxtaposed to the daytime-visible moon; it actually trailed directly in front of the moon. The former photographer in me longed for an SLR camera to capture it.
As I watched it traveling left to right over the moon, to it’s right was a white spot in the sky that made me look longer. The spot seemed to just hang in the air, like a hot air balloon but no possible hot air balloon would (could) be so high. It did not appear to be traveling like a plane would through the sky, but just hanging there.
And as quickly as I noticed it, it was no longer visible. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Nov.22,2012 bright red round object, emitting red & blue rays, over New Milford, Ct, slowly moving south to north. At 8:00 pm, Nov.
22, 2012, on a clear, dark sky east of New Milford,Ct, we saw a bright red, round ufo with red and blue rays emitting from the entire diameter. Bigger than any star or planet, it moved slowly from south to north for about 1 min., paused, and changed direction heading east.
At this point all rays disappeared, and it dissipated and slowly disappeared.
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Orange/red large bright blob in night sky over Coventry On the way to my front door after working thanksgiving, i saw what appeared to be the moon in the sky above the treeline west of Coventry. I thought the moon looked very large, and realized that it was too bight to be the moon, ans too red/orange. Then within 4 minutes, the less than 1/2 circle slowly crept behind the horizon.
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Bright light in the night sky. While driving home on I84 West into towards the Waterbury area, My wife and I witnessed what looked like a normal star or planet in the night sky. However after watching for a few minutes the "star" became extremely bright started to move off to the left, dimmed and then poof disappeared.
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15 Orange lights on horizon Approximately 12-15 orange lights of varying intensities, some as bright as the planet Jupiter, others somewhat dimmer were viewed low in the West. The lights were seen near the waxing crescent moon low on the horizon in a random pattern. They were clearly visible even though they were only several degrees from the moon’s position.
There were no flashing lights, no movement and no sounds. The lights remained stationary for the 2 minutes I stood to observe. The lights covered an area much too large to be on one vehicle; they would have been individual vehicles.
They covered an area in the sky that would be covered by an outstretched hand. I came back to the same spot 20 minutes later and they were gone.
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We were leaving the restaurant at that time. I looked up into the sky and saw these two orange fireballs side by side, they were approaching from the South heading North, they made a sharp turn heading East toward Long Island Sound. They were exactly as seen on Coast to Coast website.
I could not find one other person to view them except my husband. I sent my report to several websites, only one person responded, it was like no-one was interested, until the night of December 7th I heard you on Coast to Coast.
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Vibrant yellow lights forming perfect triangle Driving east, we saw 3 vibrant yellow lights forming a triangle. We have lived within close proximity to an airport for over 25+ years and are very familiar with planes ascending and descending regularly. We know the color lights, the sounds and the approximate height of planes within our town.
My first initial reaction was-why are those 3 plane flying so closely together? And then it was brought to my attention that they weren't planes & that's when I noticed the color of the lights, the shape & the distance. The night was clear with no visible clouds. Minimal stars were observed.
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3 Orange orbs in the night sky. While driving home on I-84 my wife and I saw 3 orange orbs in the sky. The orbs ascended slowly into the sky over about a 10 minute period and then one by one they disappeared, as if someone shut them off with a switch.
No noise was present with the sighting. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Brilliant, strobe-flashing, orange lights in Lebanon CT At approximately 23:00 the two of us saw a flicker outside the window. At first, I thought it was someone shooting off fireworks. Upon opening the curtains, we saw a slow-moving object flying lower than most planes (helicopter height).
There was absolutely no noise. It had brilliant, FLASHING orange lights (like an intense strobe light) and a bright red light on top. We could not make out a shape behind the lights.
It traveled from East to West in a straight line over the course of about ten minutes. We've never seen anything like it before. Although we're more inclined to think it's some kind of military thing, we've never seen anything like it before.
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3 or 4 groups of 3 or 4 yellow/ orange small ojects traveling NNE to SSW, disappeared one by one.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 31 reported sightings | 19.87% of all reports |
Fireball | 31 reported sightings | 19.87% of all reports |
Circle | 21 reported sightings | 13.46% of all reports |
Sphere | 11 reported sightings | 7.05% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 7.05% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
Oval | 8 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 20 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
September | 20 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
November | 18 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
July | 17 reported sightings | 10.90% of all reports |
January | 17 reported sightings | 10.90% of all reports |
August | 14 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
June | 13 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
March | 10 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 34 reported sightings | 21.79% of all reports |
Monday | 25 reported sightings | 16.03% of all reports |
Tuesday | 23 reported sightings | 14.74% of all reports |
Sunday | 23 reported sightings | 14.74% of all reports |
Friday | 22 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
Wednesday | 19 reported sightings | 12.18% of all reports |
Thursday | 10 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2012 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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10/13/12 | 5 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
01/08/12 | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
07/06/12 | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
07/04/12 | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
11/05/12 | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 86 reported sightings | 55.13% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 36 reported sightings | 23.08% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 10.90% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 9 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2012
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2012
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.