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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 110 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2018 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (18 reports, 16.36% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 18.18% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 21.82% of total).
- 06/30/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 3.64% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (44 reports, 40.00% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2018
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2018, 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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Glowing round object descends from sky the shoots out of site. While walking my dog in a dark area I was gazing up at the sky while my dog did his business. When I saw a large round glowing object lower straight down from the sky and hover still for approximately 10 seconds.
It then shot across the sky towards to east in an upwards ascending motion. This object was very large and very quiet. It felt like it lasted for minutes but in reality is guess the whole event was less than 30 seconds.
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A small orange reddish ball rose from the ground Pass three sets of windows Ascending higher and out of sight.
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A metallic saucer shaped craft flew diagonally from the top of Heroes Tunnel in New Haven up about 500 ft to the right. It was the size of small vehicle. It then hovered next to another similar craft and then both saucers disappeared.
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MADAR Node 99.
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Entire family, including cars behind us (some pulled over to watch), observed 4 extremely bright red/orange spheres very high above traveling from north-west to east - some object would hang in one spot while others would continue traveling (as if surveying/looking for something), then catching up to the rest at immense speed, then at one point, each object would begin fading and just vanish up.
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Bright light sparked across the sky and disappeared. I was driving in the car with my husband and noticed a very bright light in the sky that was moving very fast with sparks behind it. It made an arch shape, zoomed off and disappeared.
It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. It only lasted a few seconds and by the time my husband looked up it vanished.
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Numerous high altitude fast moving lights in formation. On 22 December 2018 at approximately 2200hrs, I was taking my dog out for the final time of the night. The moon was extremely bright and clouds were patchy.
As I looked up at the moon, I noticed a large number of solid lights traveling from a southeastern to northwestern direction. All lights were equidistant and in the same formation. I couldn't guess the altitude.
much higher than commercial flights. There were several normal aircraft in the area. I watched about 25-30 of these lights fly over, I tried to record them with my phone, but thanks to the bright moon, didn't get anything.
I went inside and told my wife to come outside and look. She was baffled, especially at the speed they were traveling. Much to fast to be a commercial flight, and too many on the same flight path.
I tried looking on the airplane tracker sites to see what was in the air at the time, and nothing out of the norm. Definitely not what we witnessed.
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MADAR Node 106.
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MADAR Node 106.
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Extremely bright white light in early a.m. sky 6:00 a.
m. eastern sky, watched what appeared to be a drone? but the bright white light was far too bright and high in sky. At first notice, was well above tree line then it started climbing in elevation straight up into sky.
I researched information online on what it could be, could be a comet. I do not believe it is extraterrestrial. Venus and Mercury converge on this day, but movement is unlike planetary orbit.
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MADAR Node 106.
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A sundown UFO sighting Was driving from Warren to Kent on Rt. 34. I started driving down mountain with someone behind me and no place to pull over.
Saw a white light near sundown with a pinkish trail behind craft. It was no plane or jet. Disappeared behind mountain to my left.
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Silver Oval flashed, hovered, and then disappeared. I was driving on CT Route 15. Something high in the sky flashed brightly.
I looked up to see what it was. I saw an oval grey/silver object hovering above. I stared at it for a few seconds trying to figure out what it was.
While I was looking at it, after a few seconds, it disappeared.
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MADAR Node 106.
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MADAR Node 106.
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Witness walked out of the house and looked up, saw the "lights" rotating. Thought they were Christmas lights. Witness walked out of the house and just looked up, and there saw the "lights" rotating.
Was leaving and thought maybe they were someone's Christmas display. Thought it would be visible later, but when witness returned from playing a basketball game at about 9:20 pm, looking in the now clear sky there were no lights.
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While taking the dog for a walk in the park across the street from witness' home, photos of sunset showed object While taking the dog for a walk in the park across the street from witness' home, observer decided to take continuous shots with an iPhone camera of the beautiful sunset. Upon review of the photos, there was a bright blue object darting around the sunset in a different spot in each photo, all of which took place over a few seconds time. Magnifying the object shocked the witness.
It was clearly a disc type shape. Witness submitted digital photos. In the last photo the object is magnified.
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MADAR Node 103.
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Atom-looking sphere sighted in Danbury, CT, changed colors and appeared and disappeared from the sky. Saw this very bright light in the sky and it seemed to change colors, took out my camera which has a very good zoom and zoomed in as far as it went. When looking at it closely, it was a very bright sphere, that kept changing colors and disappearing every 5 seconds.
Everytime it disappeared, it took the form of an atom. The color change and disappearance were very fast. I was amazed with the shape it had, looked like an atom, full of circles around it.
I have a couple of videos! ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Three red lights silently floating While driving we saw red lights through the trees. We wanted to see where the lights were coming from so we followed them. Three red lights slowly drifted above the trees and passed over us as we tried to follow it.
I rolled down my window to hear if it made any sound. It was silent. I tried to look beyond the lights to see if the object/s was a plane or drones.
I couldn’t see anything. It was as though they were three separate red lights moving in unison. I checked our car clock to see if we had “lost time” but only a few minutes passed.
The object(s) drifted away from the road and above a Forrest our of sight. I instructed the driver to follow it knowing that if it kept heading in the same direction it would be in an open space above water soon. We sped down the road to catch up with it but never regained sight of it again.
We retraced our path to see if there was anything we could have mistook for a flying object. There was a radio tower but the towers lights couldn’t have crossed the road.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 18 reported sightings | 16.36% of all reports |
Circle | 11 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
Changing | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 20 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
December | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
July | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
March | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 24 reported sightings | 21.82% of all reports |
Monday | 22 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 16 reported sightings | 14.55% of all reports |
Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Friday | 12 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
Sunday | 11 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2018 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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06/30/18 | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
06/09/18 | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
08/06/18 | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
09/29/18 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
04/14/18 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 40.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 18 reported sightings | 16.36% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 15 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2018
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2018
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.