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Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 78 UFO sighting reports in Connecticut from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (13 reports, 16.67% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 19.23% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 21.79% of total).
- 12/04/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 5.13% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (27 reports, 34.62% of total).
Connecticut UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Connecticut UFO reports from 2021, 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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Lights and loud sound At first I thought there was a helicopter trying land on my apartment it was so loud, my ears began to ring so I quickly went to look out my window and saw a ring of lights around my apartment. I ran to grab my phone to record what I was experiencing and everything stopped suddenly. Suddenly there are cars driving by and people walking outside.
It’s almost as if they were gone while this was happening and when it stopped everything went back to “normal”.
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unusually shaped craft with blinking lights was flying slowly and low in the sky I initially noted a very bright light in the sky that I have never seen before on my commute home. It was unclear how high it was in the sky and I first thought maybe it was a light on a tower. As i drove closer to where it seemed to be, I realized that it was moving in the sky.
I ultimately got to a point where I could see that the light was actually on a craft of some kind and I ended up driving "under" it. I was looking up at it so intently that I worried that I would not be able to continue to drive appropriately, so I pulled off the road into a small parking lot so that I could get a better look. The craft was shaped like a 3-armed boomerang, with blinking lights on the ends.
It was moving slowly and quietly in the sky and I finally lost sight of it when it moved away.
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MADAR Node 151 .
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Every night.
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My daughter and I observed a brightly lit object hovering around 100 feet above the ground behind the trees on the side of route 201. It was on a December night in 2021 that my 14 year old daughter and I had picked up my 24 year old (at the time) daughter from work and dropped her off at my mother's in Gales Ferry. We then drove home and as I made a left hand turn onto route 201, we observed some very bright lights on the left side hovering behind the trees on the farm.
My daughter said she saw it as a rectangle with extremely bright lights on it while I just saw the extremely bright lights. I believe there was a car coming behind me so I drove about 100 feet ahead to a road on the right and turned around to go back and it was gone. I had also rolled my window down in the truck to hear but there wasn't any sound.
My daughter was in shock, not believing it has just disappeared, I think she may have screamed. I turned the truck around and drove home, about 4 minutes down the road.
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UnbelievableI took my very large telescope outside during the day with usually I want to and shockingly I saw this orange thing glowing so I followed it with the telescope and my cell phone which was very difficult but as you can see I got quite the footage in this thingChange colors changed size and if you slow down the video and enlarge it you can see that it looks like it’s got propulsion colors coming out of it.
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See craft every evening when I get out of work. Follows me home I’ve seen this craft since may 2021 and saw it then in daylight in Nevada. Now only In the evening in my home state.
Every night. Hovering above with a red flashing light. Photos below are fro may and some additional since.
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Saw this orange globe and if he came see-through and turn colors and you can see the purple potion in the video Saw this orange globe and if he came see-through and turn colors and you can see the purplpotion in the video . I have witnessed several objects never anything like this I think a lot of pictures of the sky and the moon etc. and this day I don’t know why but I brought my big telescope out in there it was so I apologize but I was trying to follow this thing with a very large telescope which was difficult but it’s amazing when you blow it up in slow it down and you see the air collars are coming out of this thing when it movesI mean it turns out bake it is tiny and then it grows it’s fascinating.
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Orange and changing color and size and I happen to be outside at 4:30 I’m a photographer I took my big telescope outside which I never do and I saw something in the distance and I knew right away it was something not of this world it was changing colors yellow red orange and then it was changing size so I had my cell phone and I followed as best as I could with this telescope and my cell phone and the footage that I got it is unbelievable it’s truly amazing because if you slow down the video you see that there’s actually almost like a propulsion underneathThe colors that this changed and the size that it changed like I said I I apologize about the video there is a spot and it’s not some thing on my telescope there was something on my phone but this is a orange you can see the orange dot and then as you watch it you obviously can’t miss what I’m videotaping.
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It was hovering over our family farm slowly hovering than it stopped then the light it emitted stop. The object was cigar shaped with lights emitting on one side and it didn’t make a noise or sound and it hovered slowly and then it stopped briefly over my home and the lights went out on the cigar shaped object.
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A long series of evenly spaced lights (about 15+ on each side) which moved slowly. The shape was incredibly long (30-50 ft.)with lights on each side.
The lights were spaced uniformly on each side. It looked like a faint cigar shape, very long and thin. The lights were bright as a star.
We were able to watch it move slowly, tilted in a vertical direction and then it disappeared as if behind something, but nothing was there. The lights were very bright, and they dimmed as it started to ascend. We both watch the sky, and we have never seen anything like this.
No other aircraft was around at the time. When we first saw it was so bright, and started to move as we both looked at it, dimmed and disappeared. It lasted no more then 5 minutes.
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Long aircraft It was a whole bunch of lights that seemed to be connected together somehow in a straight line and it was moving and then disappeared.
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Chain of visibly ascending red dots, perfect line, changing speed and overlapping each other like geese in a flock. Faded out into? I'm a UPS Driver. Delivering in this area, my helper and I were on our way back to the truck.
This area has no light pollution, the sky is incredibly clear. She says, "Omg do you see that?" And I look up and just kept saying "WTF" over and over. Perfect line of 20-30 red dots, speeding up and slowing down overlapping each other like geese in a flock like I said in the summary.
Whatever it/they were, they were ascending, approximately a 40 degree angle from our position. While continuing the ascent speeding up and slowing down overlapping one by one dimmed and vanished as if getting too far up to see anymore. The positions in the line were not graduated.
I worked in aviation as an active duty Marine and I've never seen anything like it, its notable that there was no sound. The only way I can describe the speed is like the speed of an F-18 in burn, but the massive drops in speed to return to the rest of line's speed was shocking. Unidentified fliers to me, but I'm not familiar with the F-35 capabilities, could have been some training op? The fading out was turning off burn? Shrugs, but I find it ridiculously unlikely for that many to be in one place.
The spread of this line in the sky was about the size of an outstretched man's hand, pinky to thumb. Accounting for whatever altitude these things were, that's a massive distance to be doing those maneuvers over. All we could say to each other when they all disappeared was, "Noones going to believe us.
" I tried to get it on video as we witnessed it over about 30 seconds, cell cam wouldn't pick up the light. Probably just one of those things 2 people saw and will never have an answer for.
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linear, horizontal line of lights in the sky, traveling slowly; the line appeared approximately 20-30ft long from ground. I saw a line in the sky of lights; could almost be described as a horizontal line of Christmas lights high up in the sky, moving very slowly through the sky. The lights were not blinking.
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My friend was pointing to the sky, I looked up and saw a small whitish tic tac shape thing going towards the north. Saw it for about 5 seconds, then the trees were blocking my view. Not sure if there was sound or not, too much noise around me.
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Super bright light but moving Right outside my back door right above a 70 acre field is a bright light really high up but you can tell it's moving up down back and forth but not hovering. Second time we've seen it. No sound at all.
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Saw same object maybe 3-4 times at same times each night Don't know how to do that.
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Orbs in patterns Orbs over Long Island sound nov 2021. Flying in patterns.
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Orange fireball sighted in Woodbury, CT While in my bed ready to go to sleep a very bright orange light appeared outside my window. I got up and saw that the orange light was located at the top of the hills located approximately five miles south of my home. I witnessed a bright orange glowing object that resembled an intense sunrise, along with colors in the surrounding sky above.
I then thought that it may have been a fire, but the orange fireball appeared to move further away from me, over and behind the hill. As this happened the light faded and the sky returned to its normal nighttime color.
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Bright horizontal white lights. I was driving South in the state of Connecticut on the Merritt Parkway (route 15), around 9:30 pm. I could see the “half moon” in the sky in front of me.
About halfway between Middletown and Trumbull, I suddenly saw three bright stars (or lights) in a perfect horizontal line, to the right of the moon. They appeared stationary. I blinked and they vanished; the entire incident was maybe a second long.
It took me several days to process and realize what had happened. I was driving and it happened too quickly to take a photo. I don't know if this was an object or "just" bright, white lights like stars.
I have never seen anything like this before. I have a PhD in research psychology and was not imagining this event.
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 13 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Circle | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Teardrop | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 15 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
January | 12 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
September | 8 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
April | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 17 reported sightings | 21.79% of all reports |
Saturday | 15 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
Sunday | 10 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Tuesday | 10 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Friday | 8 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Thursday | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2021 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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12/04/21 | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
01/05/21 | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
01/06/21 | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
05/19/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
11/10/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Connecticut UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 27 reported sightings | 34.62% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 24 reported sightings | 30.77% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 8 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
All Connecticut Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Connecticut, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Connecticut.