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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 97 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2014 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "fireball" (22 reports, 22.68% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 15.46% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (18 reports, 18.56% of total).
- 12/29/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 5.15% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (47 reports, 48.45% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2014
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2014, 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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(1)white-ish pink/(2)red-ish orange massive fireballs hovering over Southington, Ct. then darted across sky at a abnormal rate of speed. On December 29, 2014, at approximately 19:42 hours, my dog had to go out, so I headed to my back yard.
As I stood along the fenceline of the yard, which runs parallel with I-84, I noticed a massive and extremely bright-lit reflection in my neighbors 2cd. Story window. It was so bright, that it illuminated the area around the window pane as well.
At this point, I looked up in an easterly direction to figure out what could create such a glow and that is when I saw a very bright and very large white in color fireball with a pink-ish white in color tail like shape appear to be fixed in the sky however, within seconds of noticing it hovering, it shot across the sky with such a high rate of speed it blew my mind. It literally appeared as though it hovered for a second and then completely darted into oblivion, it literally disappeared. Now my first thought was a shooting star or meteor however, it didnt fly away or in a downward motion like when stars die out.
It lit! erally disappeared, like it shut its lights out. I am a retired firefighter with respectful credibility who is a "show me the evidence" kind of guy, so I chalked it up to some weird shooting star. Yes that's what I did, of course, that was until I went outside again for my break (I work 3rd.
Shift) and what I saw blew my mind! It was approximately 1:02 AM (now on 12/30/14) and I was standing up against my employer's building, which ironically is about 1 mile down the street from my home (north), when I witnessed 2 of the same shaped fireballs that I saw earlier in the night appear out of nowhere in the sky above my employer. They were literally identical to the first sightings object, but this time they appeared different in color (again, the 1st. object was white/pink-ish in color).
They were a very bright red-ish orange in color (and again, this time there were 2). They appeared completely out of nowhere as if someone turned on a light. They were side-by-side and then within a few seconds of appearing (in which they were all so simply hovering), they completely darted again across the sky so fast that if I blinked I would have not seen them.
I have NEVER been a believer in UFO's nor the paranormal, but one thing is clear, certain and for sure, what I witnessed both times was NOT a shooting star, they were not regular aircrafts and nothing about them was "normal" by any means. This time I called my wife, whom was in bed sleeping, to tell her because I simply could NOT wrap my mind around what I saw. Now I am not an expert, I am not an astronomer nor anything else in the related field, but this my friends was NOTHING from earth nor was it the standard meteor-type incident.
This was certainly paranomal!.
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Huge unidentifiable craft that looked like it was on fire in the front end, clearly saw it disappear before our eyes. Triangle shaped. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Aqua fireball trailed by orange flames followed by white tail. Northeast to northwest direction.
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Purple, green and white bright colors. Fast, like shooting star, but very bright and very close. shooting star like, but very close and very bright.
purple, green and white bright colors. fast.
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Two lights flying, separating and vanishing in midair. Two clear/white circular lights parallel and on a downward angle. Appeared to resemble a plane flying down, nearing landing into an airport.
The two lights then separated into opposite directions at the same time and vanished. Was seen from inside a car. This could not have been a reflection because it was not opaque and at the angle it was at in the sky in regards to reflections from the car windows, it could not have been that, unless it was coming from the floor of the car (Which obviously we would have all seen because it was bright.
) There were 4 people in the car including myself, but one was asleep, the other couldn't see out my window in time, and the driver obviously kept eyes on the road. Very Strange. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Two fireball-looking objects flying side-by-side in a sourth-westerly direction. Two fireball-looking objects flying side-by-side in a south-western direction. One of the fireballs emitted what appeared to be droplets of fire from my vantage point.
The balls were not connected to each other as they weaved in an out, relative to each other. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Two diamond shaped objects over 84 Southington While merging onto 84 east from Cheshire into Southington, my daughter and I saw two diamond shaped objects hovering above the highway. One of the objects was higher in the air while one was closer to the ground. The two objects were a light golden color that pulsed every 2-3 seconds.
My daughter saw one of the objects change to red in color. The event happened very quickly as I stated earlier I was entering the highway and exited at the first exit there after. I did see several other planes in the air at least one seemed to be a small passenger plane.
((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no contact information. PD)).
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1 Very Large triangle shaped 5 lights around it. flying low and slow just over the tree tops. several commercial aircraft flying above toward Bradley airport.
Clear skies shooting stars also observed. the UFO few slowly toward Hubbard park in Meriden CT. Shortly after much much higher in the sky coming from the south west a very fast moving bright UFO was traveling north east it was traveling so fast it caught up to and past 3 aircraft traveling in the sky.
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It was big, quiet and triangular. On Friday, me and a couple of friends were in my back yard when I looked up and saw 3 moving lights. They looked to me moving from east to west, very slowly.
It appeared to be a triangle shape with 3 orange lights. It was quiet and did not look like a plane it was way too big. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
Hoax?? PD)).
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Falling "star" comet. Object falling looked like "star," no visible tail. May have been comet, no variation.
Hard to pick up any details. ((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)).
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Dark red ball flying over neighborhood house. Having campfire, we saw dark red ball, low, moving slow west to east over treeline and over neighbors house. We both said at the same time what is that.
Making no noise. We ran up steps from behind the house to the front and saw object slowly move away. Strange and wasn't far away from us.
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Object moved from South to North flashing every five seconds, otherwise not visible. While outside enjoying the cool night air, I felt a very brief bout of dizziness, which is uncommon for me. About 5 seconds later, I saw a very bright flash of light out of the corner of my eye in the Southern sky.
I thought this may be a meteor shower and kept my eyes trained in that direction. I saw another flash, nowhere near as bright, but brighter than a star or an airplane light. This flash appeared further North from the first very bright flash.
I continued to watch and saw another flash about five seconds later, again further North. Between flashes, the object was not visible. I kept watching and saw a flash every five seconds continuing to move North.
The flash was mostly white, but had a bluish tinge to it. Although the object had a Northerly heading, it did not appear to move in an exactly straight line. The time from visibility of each flash to fade out was not as fast as the usual airplane strobe, it was noticeably slower.
Also, there were no accompanying steady lights that airplanes usually have. I had the impression the object was far above normal air traffic. I cannot dismiss the possibility this was a man-made craft.
However, I have never seen flashing like this and I often go out to gaze at the stars with the unaided eye. I experienced no further dizziness. As is usual in the evening (and most other times) I was sober at the time of the sighting.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Bright yellowish sphere cut across sky extrememly fast at what appeared to by a very low altitude. I only saw the orb for a second before it was out of sight past roofline of house. Similar to a shooting star or extremely low altitude meteorite, or object burning in atmoshphere.
it was not a reflection, it was not an aircraft.
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Four bright lights forming massive circle (from ground view - estimated a couple football field large), rotating in a spherical motion, appeared low, high speeds. Every few seconds, all four objects would traject dead center, and then return to original position. ((NUFORC Note: Probably advertising lights? PD)).
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Early morning bright light no source. During early morning rainy weather, saw very bright flash with no visible source. This only occurred for a few seconds.
The space outside was like a light box as bright as sunlight. ((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)).
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Traveling on 1-91 South from Enfield, I saw something moving above in the sky and decided to look up. I was immediately terrified and swerved and had to regain composure to not hit anyone. It was a circular bright blue object flying very fast.
It was going up and down then it curved up going higher then disappeared as if it were never there. Please help get us answers.
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Red flashing orbs traveling very fast/low to ground. cluster of 4 or 5 color changing lights moving slowly, seemed to be getting closer. crazy sight.
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A bright solid orange glowing sphere, traveling south southeast to north northwest, slow steady pace, no sound, suddenly goes dark.
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V shape craft with white lights around the perimeter and flashing in sequence.6:50 AM. The craft was traveling from east to west toward Pratt and Whitney Aircraft factory in Middletown CT.
Sky was slightly overcast with a 1/2 moon in the opposite direction from the craft. Craft was still kind of far off and either not moving or moving very slow.
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Red star-like objects in sky 8-10 red star-like objects moving through the night sky heading toward the Beacon Falls area.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2014 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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Fireball | 22 reported sightings | 22.68% of all reports |
Circle | 14 reported sightings | 14.43% of all reports |
Light | 13 reported sightings | 13.40% of all reports |
Sphere | 9 reported sightings | 9.28% of all reports |
Unknown | 7 reported sightings | 7.22% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 4.12% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 4.12% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.03% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.03% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.03% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 1.03% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 15 reported sightings | 15.46% of all reports |
May | 14 reported sightings | 14.43% of all reports |
October | 10 reported sightings | 10.31% of all reports |
August | 10 reported sightings | 10.31% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 10.31% of all reports |
December | 8 reported sightings | 8.25% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 7.22% of all reports |
April | 6 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 4.12% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 18 reported sightings | 18.56% of all reports |
Friday | 16 reported sightings | 16.49% of all reports |
Thursday | 15 reported sightings | 15.46% of all reports |
Sunday | 15 reported sightings | 15.46% of all reports |
Tuesday | 14 reported sightings | 14.43% of all reports |
Monday | 13 reported sightings | 13.40% of all reports |
Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2014 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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12/29/14 | 5 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
10/14/14 | 3 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
07/05/14 | 2 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
10/09/14 | 2 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
08/24/14 | 2 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 47 reported sightings | 48.45% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 20 reported sightings | 20.62% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 14 reported sightings | 14.43% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 9.28% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2014
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2014
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.