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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 84 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2017 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (16 reports, 19.05% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 19.05% of total).
- 12/21/17 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 4.76% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (37 reports, 44.05% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2017
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2017, 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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Very bright round ball very high in the daytime sky and very bright. I was pulling into the parking lot where I work. The sun was just about to set far to my right passenger side window.
The sky was still very bright and I saw a round ball very bright silver and gold color high in the sky through my windshield. I have seen many airplanes reflecting off the setting sun and this was nothing like that. This was so extremely bright in the already bright clear blue sky I stopped my car to get a better look before I pulled into a parking spot and it suddenly took off with such speed it was just gone in a second.
I have never seen anything like this in my life. Just amazing. I checked my dash cam but the sky was still so bright it didn't pick up the object that high in the sky, but I certainly saw it with my eyes.
You can email me if you have any questions.
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Was driving southwest on Pequot Trail approaching intersection of Farmholm Road and was distracted by a very bright greenish yellow light off to my right/front (N) of the vehicle. Object was fast moving, heading in a downward trajectory as if to hit the ground. Object appeared to have a round shape behind the light, which was in silhouette.
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Fast-moving blue/ white light zoomed off. One fast-moving, blue/white light fell from the sky then zoomed off. Very large and low flying.
Looked like a LED comet with no tail.
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Driving on I-84 East, just entering Hartford, CT, witnessed through the windshield, a bright, white, almond- shaped object with a black line located vertically through the center falling in the distance too large and moving too slowly to be a shooting star.
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Driving home on Ratley road in West Suffield, my husband and I saw on the left side of the road in a field 3 large triangle objects with orange lights. They were hovering about 100 feet from the ground, DEAD SILENT-and as we kept driving down the road they increased in height and headed North West. I had an instant gratification of fear, for I have never encountered such a suspicious craft.
It looked like a SIFI movie.
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Red occasional green dot light in sky. My husband & I coming back home from dinner. Noticed light from corner of my eye in car close to home.
Cloudy a bit but saw from sky dot red & occasion green. The red light dot in sky dropped straight down then back up at high speed. It also moved from left to right fast then again straight down from view.
Stayed out for a bit to see it again but nothing. Hard to see even more because cloudy, plus trees and houses.
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Triangular lights, hovering, no sound. I was with my wife,heading south, going to store in my auto. noticed a bright white flash of light in sky the about 6 city blocks from me .
thought it might be a low flying helicopter.proceeded south and noticed 2 yellowish orange lights where the initial flash came from. I then pulled into store parking lot, almost under lights.
grabbed my binoculars and got out of the car.looked up and could see nothing but blacker than the sky and still 2 lights.leaned down into car and said to my wife,do u see that?what the hell is that? Looked up,now 3 lights in triangle shape, hovering.
still no sound, and had a Feeling it or they seen me.whatever it was ,was big,based on light pattern,and i would say it was about 400 yards in the air,i am not positive, but i would say 3 or 4 football fields in the air. still not seeing anything thru binocs but blacker than the sky triangle.
i put binocs in car, look up and its gone.do a 360 and the only thing i see is a small rectangle of! light as bright as the first flash i seen, heading north/ northeast and getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared from my view in a heartbeat. still dumbfounded.
not a big UFO guy. Didnt know who to report it too or if i should even bother. But i cant stop wondering what this was.
can be reached by email provided if necessary. thank you.
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Triangle large hovering object above I-84 East exit 72. Driving to Worcester, MA, on I-84 before exit 72 Ashford/Waterford at 6:25 am, I noticed from a distance a large object in sky above 84 East. It seemed like a huge drone with white blinking lights on the sides and what seemed to be a green light in front.
At first from a distance I thought it was a cell tower light until I got closer and realized it was hovering above the highway.
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Northeast mid sky light moving oddly. Took dog out on dark north facing side of house. Clear night with beautiful stars out.
I notice one slightly different in character. It looked like a star but was clearer, brighter, and had reflection rays around it. The rays were in a chevron pattern on either side but you had to look carefully to notic.
The tops of the leafless tree branches were eye level and it was moving. It was very high up as the movement was slight. I hugged the movement against branches and other stars.
It moved around not directional. Sort of like a ballon would.a little to the left, a bit up, then back down, then a minute still, then over to the left again, then to the right.
It might have been some sort of balloon but I thought i’d report it. To my eye it looked like it could have been made up of several likes on one object. Facing due north it was around 10-11 o’clock, in the northwest central sky (I don’t know how else to say it).
It was still there when I left. It was not f! ast moving. If it was moving directionally I would have thought it was a satellite.
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Triangular shape no noise On the night of December 20th between 7:35 and 7:40 pm, I was walking my dog and happened to look up towards the west and see movement. I thought it it was a shooting star or possibly a meteor shower. I had seen a shooting star two nights prior.
I tried to focus to see if there were more when saw what appeared to be an outline of a black triangular or wing shaped object moving silently overhead. I thought it may be a flock of birds, but it made no sound was moving faster than flocks of birds that I had seen during daytime and the shape appeared to be steady. The sighting only lasted about 5 seconds.
I lost the object when it flew towards some clouds. The conditions were partly cloudy with some illumination from the moon. Per intellicast the weather conditions were 33 degrees wind chill 25 visibility 10 miles and ceiling of around 5000.
Per my phone compass, the shape moved west to east. From my perspective looking up, the “wingspan” was about 9 inches. The shape was below the clouds.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Driving on a Clear night near our house, Myself Wife and our Small Puppy noticed a large Diamond Shape Craft over large Trees in front of us. I stopped my Car, watched Craft had yellowish Orange lights flashhing and still. My Puppy who was in front car seat he didnt know what he was watching in Sky.
It was strange, about quarter mile in sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Large triangle formation I was letting my dog out in the backyard when I got home from work. I was walking around the pool patio and was looking up over the roof line of my house and it appeared that 3 stars in the shape of a triangle started moving. Since I was walking, I stopped in place kinda wondering what I was watching and wanted to make sure I was actually seeing the lights move.
The triangle formation continued to move towards the east fairly slowly and appeared to be somewhat high in the air but appeared to be about 3-4 inches in length from where I stood so, would have to be enormous up close. The object just quietly moved towards the east and each of the 3 lights gradually diminished One by one. It just looked like a very large triangle of stars moving.
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Witnesed 2 star like objects slowly move across the night sky then dissappear I was out walking my dog and happened to look straight up at the clear night sky and witnessed 2 white star-like objects moving slowy toward the ESE. The best way to describe these is that they resembled two large stars the size and brightness of Venus. After about 2 minutes the first object suddenly dimmed out and disappeared, followed 10 seconds later by the 2nd object dimming out and vanishing as well.
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We were just arriving to my friend’s house in Newington, CT, and I saw a flash of green light in the sky. I told my friend, and she looked up and it happened again, stopped, and then about 30-40 seconds later there was a final double flash. I pulled out my phone to record but it stopped happening.
I did notice what sounded like the horns from inception far in the distance for the first two, but after the last one there was no sound. We’re very confused.
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In the far corner of the sky looking out on to Brentwood Rd. I’m Newington. There was a bright flash that was a dull green and flashed once, then waited about 45 seconds before flashing a second time.
There was another slightly shorter pause and then a double flash. It lit up half the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.
PD)).
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Large teardrop shape yellowish in color dropping straight down before completely disappearing. This occured looking down the chapel st. N / walnut st area just before we merged onto 84W.
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Nov 8, at approx 8:35 pm, driving west on rte 372 in Plainville, CT, saw 3 bright lights in a row, close together hovering over the rte 72 extension highway that goes into Bristol. As I got closer the lights flew over the Trumbull Ave. neighborhood and then headed near the YMCA along Rte 10 North bound, over the cemetery and towards the area of Robertson Airport.
This object seem to change shape to a butterfly with colored lights when it was near the YMCA, but went back straight line of white lights. Lost view of it as it flew North.
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Saw a large light in the sky moving extremely slowly. Last a minute and then it disappears into thin air.
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large, bright (shooting star?) moved quickly low on horizon; bigger, brighter, slower than a normal shooting star. At approximately 12:35 am on Oct. 31, 2017, I was outside in my yard.
A bright light caught my attention. It was fairly low on the horizon, and also was a bit slower than any shooting star I’ve ever seen, and much bigger, and brighter. Still the whole event lasted only seconds.
It moved quickly and seemed to recede below horizon. Probably a shooting star, but it was pretty weird. I am just an ordinary person, with virtually no astronomy knowledge.
I just felt compelled to report this as it freaked me out a little.
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Black, Slow Moving Parallelogram Shape over Willimantic on morning commute noticed a large parallelogram shaped black object that barely moved then it changed into a line shape and disappeared.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2017 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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Circle | 16 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Light | 14 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Triangle | 9 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Fireball | 6 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 5.95% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Egg | 3 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.19% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.19% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2017 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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December | 12 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
October | 12 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 12 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
September | 9 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
November | 6 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 5.95% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 5.95% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 1.19% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 16 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Saturday | 13 reported sightings | 15.48% of all reports |
Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 15.48% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Monday | 10 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Sunday | 9 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2017 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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12/21/17 | 4 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
08/25/17 | 3 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
09/27/17 | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
06/29/17 | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
11/22/17 | 2 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 44.05% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 17 reported sightings | 20.24% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 11 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 6 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2017
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2017
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.