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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 126 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (26 reports, 20.63% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (22 reports, 17.46% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (25 reports, 19.84% of total).
- 07/24/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.97% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (56 reports, 44.44% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2019, 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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Three lights flashing in triangular form Three lights in the sky in a triangular form with one orange ball hovering and not moving. cI lost it after 30 seconds. cIt seemed pretty low in the sky.
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Three hovering orange lights that moved at incredible speed. At 18:25 on Dec 23, 2019, I witnessed three unusually bright orange lights in the South to Southwest sky. They were motionless for about 2 minutes.
I went into the house to get my son and when we returned there was only one. It made no sound but suddenly started to move extremely quickly in an almost straight line until it was obscured by the clouds as it went above them and disappeared from sight. I.
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Large rectangular object with 4-5 flashing lights On 12/22/19 im driving home from a friend's house in oxford though a back road. A somewhat remote part I notice up in to the left a large rectangular object that seemed to be hovering. Had what i want to say 5 maybe 4 flashing lights they were flashing red but one was flashing green.
from what I can tell it was not a plane even though the airport is close by. As I look foward i see a police car driving towards me. My guess the cop was following this object there was no way he didnt see it.
I got nervous looked forward sped all the way home.I was only able to see the object for seconds an as i was driving, during the incident I thought about pulling out my phone but didn't have enough time. Talked to my friend and asked if theres any radio towers or anything in the sky in that area and he assures me no.
Whatever it was definitely wasnt a plane wish i could of look a little longer but i wanted to get home asap.
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White light with two squares that caused radio interference. We noticed a bright light on Miller rd and realized that it was not moving. It was a white light and was in the shape of two squares.
Out of nowhere the craft disappeared. Right before it disappeared the radio went static. We both had an odd feeling.
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Object flew like a plane, then just instantly disappeared in seconds.
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Driving east on route 6, a blue stream appeared, paused and took off into the cloud cover. Similar to a shooting star, but was bright blue.
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Bright green flash dart across half the sky in less than half a second - color was bright green but unlike any other bright green I have ever seen. looked like an abject with circular light ring around it moved in and out of sight quick. As fast as a shooting star but way larger.
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Two oval shapes containing colors of purple blue and red Up above I said I saw 2 Crafts. Although I am not sure, it happened so quickly. I know there was definitely one.
I saw two oval shapes of light that were very close together. It was super foggy last night so I only saw the very vibrant lights that circulated in an oval very quickly. The light colors were purple, red, and I want to say blue as well.
It went by so fast I have never seen anything like it before. I tried to look up pictures online but nothing quite matched the description of what me and my friend saw. As the Craft went over us I felt chills go throughout my whole body and the gravity or something was just different as if everything was as light as a feather and like there wasn't gravity for one second.
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Large/ oval soft white light object width red smaller object above and to left Oval/dome shaped white light that seemed to change size from smaller to bigger in uneven short spans There was a second much smaller red light that appeared to hover above and to the left of the bigger object. They were fairly far apart from each other but no I seems to move together but not perfectly tandom there was some irregularity in their change in elevation I was driving from ledyard to groton_southbound on country road to main road. object was high enough for me to see above the trees and went from being in front of me, then to the right of me lower in the sky then slightly behind me on the right.
Then higher. When i turned right, it was now on my left, so it had moved ahead south faster that me. When I got to route 12 it was directly in front of me toward the water .
I could see it the entire trip except for when trees partially obstructed view . It’s movement did not resemble an airplane or helicopter. It was an very clear, bright n! ight and other planes could be seen in the sky.
these objects stood out as different.
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I had departed from work in Watertown traveling home to Tolland. I think I was in Meriden at the time on I-691 commuting towards the I-91 connector, when I looked upward into the sky through my windshield and saw approximately 12 glowing spheres stationary in the sky, vertically one on top of another in two separate row formations.
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UFO Sighting I was driving around 3pm and saw it in the sky a huge circle/ flash in the sky then it was gone. It lasted maybe 2 seconds. Very, very white and big object with flash.
The passenger was with me and we both didn’t know what it was. No other explanations or anything in the sky on a clear day that would suggest it could have been something else. We same to the conclusion that we saw a ufo.
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MADAR Node 106.
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Circular object with lights underneath seen in images taken of cloud formation 11/29/2019: Jones Tree Farm, Shelton, CT While selecting our family Christmas tree, I noticed a nice cloud formation and an ice prism. I took out my phone and snapped several pictures in succession. The bright sun that day made it difficult to see the viewing glass of the phone and was basically shooting blind.
A short while later I reviewed the images and saw something I was not expecting to- a disc shaped object, just left of the cloud formation. In successive images the object appears in three different locations. I electronically zoomed -in with the phones camera to see the object better.
I immediately saw a dark circular object with what appears to be lights on the underside. One image has four in a square pattern. One has four in a diamond-shaped pattern.
The third shows five lights. These all together distinctly tell me this object was in motion. I have all the images and will be e-mailing the files.
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MADAR Node 148.
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MADAR Node 151.
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Bright light moving erratically in night sky. I have it on video.
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2 lights, circular aircraft seen by many in Colchester,CT Flying slow and low to the ground - at first appeared to be 2 glowing stars. Abnormally large and upon getting closer proved these lights were on the end or a large round aircraft of the likes I’ve never seen. Large enough to be mid plane size, not a drone.
From underneath due to lighting the shape was illuminated with a few colored lights at the bottom. The engine was quite loud and had not others including my child seen in, I would have believed I was hallucinating.
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Cylindrical shiny object descending Seen from a vast open parking lot in the Western sky: A cylindrical, shiny object moving slowly and downward from the West, moving downward and North. It seemed to be slowly hovering and descending towards East Haven, CT. The cylindrical shape had 4 "spikes", two on a horizontal plane and two vertical (one vertical in the middle of the cylinder and one vertical at the end of the cylinder).
One of the horizontal spikes had a blinking red light. It was buzzing faintly until it descended over the tree line.
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A large red ball descending at an extremely rapid rate of speed from very high above larger and faster than planes disappearing . I witnessed from the terrace of my apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the southern part of the sky a red ball about the size of a quarter of the moon that night fly from east to west at a downward trajectory from the top of the trees about the same height of the moon whiz at a high rate of speed downward and disappear. It was unlike anything I had ever seen and I am a constant watcher of the night skies.
It lasted about seven seconds. Planes go by all the time and fly horizontally and look like specs. This was large, came out of nowhere almost as if it came from another dimension.
It disappears out of my sight line and although I watched for a while longer did not reappear. I am sixty year old and not prone to fantasies. I love looking at constellations and planets.
For instance I can see Orion and Jupiter from my terrace. I worked as an administrative assistant and taught children. I currently take care of my 82 year old mother.
When I was young our school had a planetarium which started my fascination with the night sky.
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Arrowhead shaped craft with anomalous-looking array of red-green strobes Arrowhead shaped craft with unusual configuration of lights - POSSIBLY anomalous: Monday evening, approximately 6:15PM - full dark. Thin clouds, about 1,000 ft altitude. Was driving SW on Route 8, right-hand lane, toward Stratford, between exits 12 and 11 in Shelton.
To my right (West), above tree line, about 45 degrees in night sky I noticed an approaching aircraft about a mile away (flying NE) that drew my attention because of its strangely pulsing array of lights (Yes, I frequently watch the skies. Am no aviation pro, but familiar enough with most of the steady air traffic in my vicinity, anti-collision and navigation lights, etc.).
This aircraft looked to be traveling at an altitude of about 300 feet going NE, parallel to Route 8, above Route 714 (Bridgeport Avenue), in the vicinity of the shopping area there (and "Scinto-ville"). Very bright multiple pairs of red and green lights that did not strobe alternately, port-middle-starboard or vice-versa, per second, like most aircraft, but pulsed red-green simultaneously and much faster all about the surface of what seemed to be an arrowhead shaped craft. No, NOT a helicopter - I know Sikorsky is nearby.
If it made any noise I could not hear it because windows were rolled and I was in moving vehicle heading in opposite direction. As we passed I slowed down somewhat, attempting to get a better look up through front window, but was unable to make out any fuselage or wings. Size was difficult to determine, but seemed larger than most private planes but smaller than most commercial planes.
Therefore, I decided to get off at the next available exit, turn around and try to catch up to it. Doing so only trapped me in routine after-work traffic back-up.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 26 reported sightings | 20.63% of all reports |
Circle | 20 reported sightings | 15.87% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 3.97% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 3.97% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 3.17% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 3.17% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 3.17% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.59% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.59% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.59% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 0.79% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.79% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 22 reported sightings | 17.46% of all reports |
September | 14 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
April | 12 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
October | 11 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
November | 11 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
December | 11 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
June | 9 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 3.97% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Friday | 25 reported sightings | 19.84% of all reports |
Monday | 23 reported sightings | 18.25% of all reports |
Sunday | 22 reported sightings | 17.46% of all reports |
Tuesday | 19 reported sightings | 15.08% of all reports |
Wednesday | 17 reported sightings | 13.49% of all reports |
Saturday | 13 reported sightings | 10.32% of all reports |
Thursday | 7 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2019 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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07/24/19 | 5 reported sightings | 3.97% of all reports |
11/04/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
07/07/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
10/04/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
08/23/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 56 reported sightings | 44.44% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 28 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 18 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 11 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 6 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.