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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 75 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2016 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (17 reports, 22.67% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 14.67% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 25.33% of total).
- 02/14/16 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 4.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (32 reports, 42.67% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2016
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2016, 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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This object was flashing in the sky. It wasn't an airplane because it was motionless. Although we seen a few airplanes circle near the object.
Everytime it flashed it got brighter and brighter. We watched it flash for 50 minutes until it disappeared into thin air.
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Orange oval light over southeast Manchester, CT. Hovered below cloud cover moving left/right up/down then up into clouds. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Big bright point of light much much bigger than any other star in the sky. Hovered slowly in location going northwest. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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First 4 and then 5 objects. The four were in a diamond formation. 11 hours missing time.
Christmas Eve 12:19 AM. 2016. Getting ready for bed.
I'm home alone because I don't travel well. I remember the time, because I was hearing the words "Help. Please Help.
Need assistance". Over and over again. As I have studied the phenomenon for decades now, I knew there were things I needed to do.
I jotted down the time (To see if I could find a normal explanation later). I responded in my head, "I am coming to give whatever help I can". STRANGENESS And from 1 moment to the next.
I was PHYSICALLY IN MY YARD. But I am a disabled man. I can stand, I just can't move very quickly.
It was bitterly cold that night, yet I was perfectly warm. THE OBJECTS I found myself looking up at four "objects" in a formation that was very "Clock-like", except that there were diamond shaped craft where the numbers usually are. The craft that was virtually screaming for assistance was at the 9 o clock position.
This craft seemed to be having difficulty maintaining altitude, as it would change color from the brilliant blue that lit up my entire backyard, to almost a blood red type of color. Every time it shifted color, it dropped straight down out of formation. It got lower and lower.
I was fully awake and alarmed at this time as I was full aware of what might be happening right in front of me! Every time it dropped, the other 3 craft would brighten in intensity and the "distressed" craft would begin to rise again. I projected nothing but positive thoughts and hopes as I would do at an airshow when it would look like a craft was in danger. I was rooting for it's safety as I would ANY other living beings.
At that point, a FIFTH ship appeared out of nowhere right next to the craft that was in distress. I felt waves of gratitude from every ship and it was over. STRANGENESS When I realized I was getting cold, I also realized something else.
It was approximately 11 hours later and the Sun was out. (You'll read I have adopted the "Strangeness" nomenclature. So far, the Military Industrial Complex has not been able to do many things our "friends" can.
Tracking for these things help me form my own opinion). It had now gone from 12:19 Am to 10:40AM with the daylight shining. I had lost 11 hours I have no recollection of.
STRANGENESS Every TV in the house was on! EVEN THE TV's that had no electricity. The TV sets that actually had remote controls would turn off as normal when I pressed the power button. It took me a few minutes due to being rattled, but I finally figured out if I plugged the set into any outlet, and then unplugged it again, the set would remain off.
Notes At NO TIME did I have any fear for my safety. I could not make much detail out other than color and general shape. I thought they might be Sikorski's latest sports model so I want to know ON if I saw one again.
During the 11 missing hours. No question about it. I would have died from exposure.
Like I said, I made the decision to help at the same time I grabbed my robe. That remained the only clothes I had on. What I am hoping to do is to give other witnesses of this event, or ones like it, to come foreword.
I wish to assure you that what you think you saw happen, really happened (That's what's emotionally bothering me the most right now). The solitude is crushing at times, not being able to speak to anyone that also experienced what I had. I am a dabbler in Greer's CE5 Protocols.
If someone saw this event, perhaps we are being told something.
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Bright lights I was waiting for my daughter to get out of work and noticed a very bright white light midsky. No noise, no movement just hovering. A few minutes later I noticed two aircraft things following each other.
One was glowing red the other white. They went east to west. Once out of sight, two more appeared, both white and followed the same path.
Meanwhile, the brightest light was becoming dimmer until it was no longer in sight. Very strange.
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Was not a jet. Hovering over Clinton dock for about two min. with flashing colored lite's moved fast south in seconds.
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2 crafts, one orange color, one greenish/white color. Hovering over Cromwel, CT. Orange craft made movements toward Greenish white/craft then disappeared.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Low flying UFO, "S" shape flight path, then flew into the ocean. Hello, Last night (12/5/2016) at 8:05 p.m.
, in Niantic, Connecticut, I saw a craft in the sky that maneuvered unlike anything I have seen in my 30 years of life. The aerial craft was low, flying traveling at an incredible speed. It was making an “S” shape in the sky and had a steady red light on it.
It was flying from East to West. I saw a green light blink twice from it with no steady interval. I stepped out onto Main Street to fallow it.
I thought about taking out my phone to capture it, but I couldn’t take my eye off of it. I was struck with fear and awe. Then it did a 180, shot back to the east, and shot straight down into the estuary several blocks away.
I was not on any drugs and had only had half a beer.
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Very bright object moving slowly with flashing red, blue, green, and yellow lights. One very bright light in the Southwest sky, first assumed to be a star or planet, however it moved slowly and had flashes of red, blue, green and yellow lights. I watched for nearly an hour before it disappeared.
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Two orange/pink lights following each other. I was getting in my car to go pick up my Daughter from work. I sat in my car and started it and closed the door.
I am a smoker, so I put the driver side window down. Looking up at the stars and noticed a big orange/pink light coming out of the South West. I got out of the car to get a better look, and it had a bright orange/pink glow all around it when it was approaching and when it was departing.
As the first one passed at a slow speed, I looked and about 5 miles right behind it was another one. The first one had no sound at all. I alerted two young kids of about 13 and told them to look up.
They were freaking out. I ran in and grabbed my camera and got a shaky video, but you can clearly see the 2 crafts one in front of the other. Really cool.
I will upload the video in its raw form, if I can. Going out to look a little more.
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Bright light originally mistaken for a star. Began moving and hovering across wooded area for a duration of 5 minutes before leaving sight. Surroundings were completely dark.
Object was almost orb-like. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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They were red lights in formation all traveling at the same speed. At first I thought they we're an airplane but there was too many of them and too close together. There were no blinking lights they stayed all read they moved from the south east towards would've been the Hartford skyline.
And they just disappeared. The initial group were followed by two more traveling which appeared to be the same speed and disappeared in the same location.
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As my partner and I exited our vehicles we both noticed off in the distance above the horizon approximately 10+ yellow/orange non flashing/flickering balls of light traveling west to east above 500FT and what appeared to be at least one mile away. These balls of light appeared to be absent of sound and traveled in groups. Travel direction and altitude remained constant until they reached a particular eastward point.
Each ball of light (individually) accelerated instantly to incredible speeds and disappeared in the distance once at that point. Several photos and one small video were obtained during this sighting.
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Could be a military vehicle, but why there and just after midnight on two occasions? Saw this hovering in the sky, two bright white lights, on the left and right side of the craft. I stopped at the stop sign and just watched it hover there. Saw it again on October 24th, thought it strange!.
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Triangle craft flying low with two red lights in back and a white light in the middle Woke up one morning while getting ready for school heard a low deep noise coming from the back of my home I quickly ran to my back window and saw a large triangle shaped craft flying fast and low over the skyline. The sky was somewhat dark but clear skies. The craft had two red lights on the back (not blinking) and one white light in the middle of it, somewhat like a spotlight.
The craft quickly passed over the trees to where I couldn't see it anymore and the sound dissipated. After the craft passed the trees the chickens I raise started acting uneasy running around frantically like something was chasing them. I live in a rural town with only woods behind my home.
Due to the little pollution in my area I regularly watch the skies looking at different planes. This craft was not like anything I had seen before.
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Under the clear sky this morning as I was driving down 84 I spotted 2 UFO craft one of them flying lower than the other triangle black objects just hovering over the mountains.
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3 Triangle shaped craft hovering over MxCC middlesex Community College My wife and I were walking the dogs with neighbors on the campus of MxCC Middlesex Community College, when we all noticed green and blue lights about 100 feet above Snow Hall. They appeared to be triangle shaped moving very slow. After about 2-3 minutes we started to move closer to take some photos, when the crafts suddenly vanished? Everyone agreed this was unlike anything we have ever seen in my life!.
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At first I thought it was a star off to the East but the blinking lights jumped out. It sat there for hours. Green, blue, hints of red lights, almost strobing in the distance.
It caught both me and my wife off guard. Whatever it is, it's not a plane or a star. That much is known to my wife and me.
((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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UFO (Real bright light) over Lake Beseck in Middlefield, Ct I live out by Lake Beseck in Middlefield, Ct This past Saturday (10/08/16) in the early evening i came out of my home to bring some firewood inside since the nights have started to get chilly. While i was walking over to the woodpile i noticed a bright white light over the mountain in the area where the Mountain Side Resort is from a WSW direction. At that time i didn't pay any mind to it cuz i just thought it was a aircraft or maybe the planet Venus.
Venus can get real bright at times and could fool someone too. So after bringing a load of wood in i went back out to get some smaller starter wood with my bucket and i noticed again that this light had gotten closer and now was over the southern area of the lake. This was no planet.
At that point i stopped to take a good look at it but i couldn't tell if it had stopped or was continuing to come in my direction. This thing was bright and it looked like there was a smaller but just as bright light just under the main light. To find out if it was moving still, i a lined myself (my eyes) with a telephone cable that hanged from a street light across from my property in such a way to see if it would appear from behind the cable.
Sure enough it came from behind the cable so that told me it was moving but not fast at all. Keeping my eye on this thing, i went into my car to get a pair of field glasses (maybe 10x25) not too powerful but enough to see it through the lens. All i could see was these lights that were too bright (blob), no markings or anything, couldn't make out a shape to it at all, it was just too bright.
No sound at all, no vapor trail, just floating along in a ENE direction, at a angle that would have put it right over my home. As I'm looking at it coming closer, all of a sudden it just disappeares!!, like someone just hit a switch and turned the lights off. There was no clouds anywhere in the sky.
The moon was up but it was futher to the south. The sky at the time was i guess what u would call in twilight. The stars were just starting to appear, dark but not real dark.
Not sure of the time but it was around 1845-1900 hrs. I've seen other things in the sky at night, ISS, meteours, shooting stars etc, but nothing like this object or anything this bright. I suppose it could have been a drone that someone was flying but at night??, no sound from any props, and the distance this thing traveled from, with one hell of a big light or two.
I don't think so. It just disappeared. I looked further to the ENE direction to see if it reappeared but nothing.
I continued to scan the rest of the sky in all directions but still nothing more. One min it was there and the next min it just disappeared, gone!! I'm beside myself cuz i've never seen anything close to what this was. Weird, real strange, WOW!.
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A triangular shaped object flying over Torrington, CT. I was driving up Hospital Hill & when I reached the top I noticed what appeared to be a line of lights on the horizon. As I continued down the road, it came much closer very fast and I realized it was a triangle gliding over the town.
I instantly pulled over and took multiple photos, one of which captured the object. It was dark, but I could still make out the shape so I was able to confirm it was an object & not 3 seperate orbs of light. The corners were very defined, and I could make out the edges, each of which had one white light, and each of which illuminated the sky somewhat.
The object was moving fast, smooth, and silently. I arrived at work, and was extremely happy to find that a coworker on the way to work had also seen this object gliding over the town. The object was flying in a south western direction.
I'm awful with directions, but I can assume it was flying towards the Bristol, Thomaston, or Terryville area.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2016 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 | 17 reported sightings | 22.67% of all reports |
Circle | 10 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Triangle | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2016 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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August | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
January | 10 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
December | 10 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
July | 8 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
October | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2016 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 | 19 reported sightings | 25.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 16 reported sightings | 21.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 13 reported sightings | 17.33% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 8 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2016 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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02/14/16 | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
07/27/16 | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
01/03/16 | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
12/24/16 | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
01/06/16 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2016 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 | 32 reported sightings | 42.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 16 reported sightings | 21.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2016
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2016
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.