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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 132 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (26 reports, 19.70% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 12.88% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (25 reports, 18.94% of total).
- 04/10/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.79% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (51 reports, 38.64% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2020, 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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MADAR Node 151.
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It was a clear enough night to see it was triangular in shape with no sound moving very slowly At approximately 3:45 AM on December 26th 2020 I had arose early and was having coffee at my desk when I noticed a triangular shaped object moving from west to east in a very slow manner. While moving across the sky there were white and red lights that would blink on and off. There was no sound and there were no other aircraft that I could see in the area.
There were no obstructions and the object was clearly visible and was definitely triangular in shape.
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MADAR Node 106.
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Blue circular light falling from sky I saw a blue circular light in the distance outside my window. Larger than a star. It caught my eye, then moved vertically for about 7 seconds and disappeared.
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MADAR Node 151.
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Long. Without my glasses, it looked like a cluster of stars. Thought it was plane, but no sound.
Moved a little jerkily. Then stopped. Southeastern sky.
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two objects that appeared through my camera as white, seem that they had the ability to become one and seperate at high speed.
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12/02/2020 UFO 1. SIGHTING I took my dog outside at 1:00 am. Something caught my eye in the sky and I looked up I could see about 15 to 20 white balls of light above The clouds some were still then they were quickly Zipping around in different directions sometimes coming to A fast halt and they would zip back in the direction From which they came.
They were close together in a A group. It reminded me of how fire flies are in a group Flashing off and on moving around in the dark Except this was quicker. I say about 5 minutes but, it could have been Longer.
I became scared so I went back inside I woke my boyfriend up but, He didn’t want to go outside in the cold.
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MADAR Node 151.
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Glowing blue ball of light moving horizontally across sky then suddenly dropping straight down quickly Me and my boyfriend saw a glowing blue ball of light moving horizontally across the sky for about 15 seconds then briefly disappeared and suddenly re appeared and started dropping straight down until it was out of sight.
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Orange pinkish object flying straight up into sky I was heading home on 84 West highway in Connecticut and just passed the exit for Willington, when in the sky I seen what looked like 3 stars very close to together in a cluster through my front windshield. I did a double take because one of the starts was brighter amd almost an orange pinkish haze. I thought no way that is Mars, too low and too bright.
As I continue to drive on 84 I start to see the orange pinkish light start to move straight up, away from the cluster and then I realize only 2/3 starts were actually stars. I keep my eye on it while trying to maintain correct speed on highway and notice it start to go straight up then almost curve towards the direction of the moon that was seen through my drivers side window. While it is moving away from my front windshield and toward my driver's window I take a picture, I thought I got a video but somehow the video erased while switching to camera mode.
I followed it until it was out of sight and the whole ! situation was less than a minute.
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Metal vertical flying, cross-shaped object with spoon-shaped glowing red top. Emitted no sounds as it flew by fairly close. Was giving my horse water & admiring sunrise as an object came into my view fairly close - right above the tops of the ash trees in our yard.
Thought it was a drone at first but the shape was so odd & there was absolutely no sound. It flew fairly fast at an even pace and I couldn’t stop staring at it until it disappeared. Looked like a metal cross flying vertically and had a dark red, somewhat glowing “spoon shaped” top.
The strangest thing I’ve ever seen.googled all types of drones and weather tools but nothing compares.
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A group of round white balls like objects with mothership! My husband and 7yr old heard a noise outside. Upon going to back porch to check it out we witnessed what appeared to be a spaceship. Many objects, light likes just going in a circular motion.
Overall shape of activity was like a diamond shape or a spinning type. The "objects" appeared in color of a light bulb and as they moved in a circular motion the center was dimmed but remained still. At some point we saw lights shoot outward like a light explosion but in a very organized fashion like a burst of water.
The width of the shape formed by these lights/objects had to be at least 10ft wide and was about 1-2 blocks away from our home but due to the large size it seems as if it was right next door.
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A big ufo with two rings of circles moving together like gears spotted while exiting highway and also by others in plainville My boyfriend was driving me home because I had to be home for 9:45 and he missed the exit to my house so had to go off of the next one but it’s not rare for me to go that way in the dark, so we were almost at the next exit when we saw two rings made of circle lights rotating in opposite directions but obviously they were of 1 because they were almost rotating into eachother like gears(it was also HUGE, pretty close to the earth tbh), I thought maybe it was espn lights but there’s NO WAY then they started moving, I was unable to get a video it wouldn’t show up but I went on my phone after I got home and found out that a couple of my friends in plain like actually had gotten a video and they posted them on their Snapchat’s because it was so crazy, so me and my boyfriend saw it in plantsville, and my friends saw it in plainville over their houses going in a steady track, so that means it must be going somewhere because it’s obviously moving and moving pretty f! ast. I slid up on my friends stories asking them to send me the videos so that I can send them to you, it’s the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life.
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Two star like objects moving across the sky I walked outside and noticed two bright stars and then realized they were moving. I called the rest of the family out to confirm what I was seeing. There were 2 star like objects moving across the sky.
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Three bright lights in the shape of a triangle in the night sky that dissapeared one by one. I looked up and saw three bright white dots that looked like extremely bright stars in the shape of a triangle. They stayed in their formation but one by one they got dimmer and faded away until they were all gone.
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Bright white ring shape was hovering in the sky then dropped and flew away along the tree line. I was doing about 40mph at the time and it flew out of sight at least 4x my speed.
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Silent object cut through clouds at a very rapid pace. While unloading groceries from my trunk I looked up and noticed that something was cutting through the clouds at a rather fast pace. The object was completely silent and appeared to be moving at a speed greater than what a traditional aircraft would.
I was unable to see the craft but the clouds were being cut, forming a boomerang shape at the front of where the craft had to be. Once the craft cut through, it left a clear gap where it had gone through. The craft did not have lights consistent with a traditional aircraft - no flashing lights or bright lights whatsoever but it did assist to have a faint red tint as it cut through the clouds; certainly not bright enough to be from a plane.
Also, unlike a plane, the craft was no longer visible after cutting through the clouds. I would have expected to see it once it moved out of the clouds and into the clear sky but I didn't.
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I went to smoke a cigarette last night on my backporch and noticed a brighter orange colored star do I thought in the sky. I immediately got my phone out and took a picture. Only when I zoomed in I can see this light make like zigzags in the sky.
It then looked like it changed color. My 16 yr old son came home around 1030pm and we started taking videos. We then found like 4 or 5 more all throughout the sky.
they looked like flashing lights in the night sky. We then took pics and videos because now they were turning into what looked like spheres and all different shapes. One of the pictures we took actually shows the bottom of the object and it clearly shows a circle bottom and then it like disappears and shoots off the screen.
I also took a video of all 3 in 1 video to show it wasn't just a fluke happening. It was actually something in the sky.
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Black thick scroll design in wing position. I noticed, what I first thought was, an airplane. It had a large black scroll design, thick in structure, where the wing would be.
No tail. Realizing it was unusual, I turned to pick up my phone to take a picture and returned, less than 3 seconds later, to find it was gone. I stepped outside to search the sky.
There was no obstruction of the sky for miles in all directions. It was completely gone.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 19.70% of all reports |
Circle | 18 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Sphere | 9 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2020 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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April | 17 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
July | 16 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
October | 14 reported sightings | 10.61% of all reports |
August | 13 reported sightings | 9.85% of all reports |
November | 12 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
June | 9 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
February | 9 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
December | 8 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 5.30% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 25 reported sightings | 18.94% of all reports |
Friday | 23 reported sightings | 17.42% of all reports |
Monday | 22 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 18 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Thursday | 18 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Wednesday | 15 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/10/20 | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
07/14/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
08/01/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
04/11/20 | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
05/23/20 | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 51 reported sightings | 38.64% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 28 reported sightings | 21.21% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 13 reported sightings | 9.85% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 12 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 11 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.