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Bristol, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 42 UFO sighting reports in Bristol, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 26.19% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 23.81% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 30.95% of total).
- 2021 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 16.67% of total).
- 06/30/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 7.14% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (25 reports, 59.52% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Bristol, Connecticut
These Bristol, Connecticut UFO reports are 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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I witnessed an egg shaped object flying across the sky. It was a clear blue sky with some occasional clouds and as i was working outside I noticed what appeared to be an egg shaped object fly across the sky at a moderate speed. It flew on a straight horizontal path.
I was confused as i was unable to make out any wings, colors, markings or any discernible features on it, so i pulled out my phone and zoomed in and took several pictures until it disappeared into cloud cover. As an avid sky enjoyer, I am always able to identify aircraft in clear weather conditions. This was an oblong,egg shaped object from what i saw with my eyes and what the pictures show.
The object did not correspond with aircrafts in the area listed on the Flight Radar app. It did not wobble or move with the wind such as a balloon would.
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As my boyfriend and I drove down the street, we saw a golden glowing triangular shape moving slowly away from us. I watched it closely as we drove and can say I truly have never seen anything like that in my life.
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Red and blue flash seen in the sky for a second or more traveling at light speed I was driving along I95 at this time bringing my gf back from the airport. While driving past construction by quite a bit therefore it couldn’t have been any of there lights because it was back in new Britain. I saw a flash of blue and red lights shine in the sky for a second and the craft looked as if it was falling in a sideways /downward angle and then vanished without a trace.
I asked my gf did you see that and she was like I was about to ask you the same thing. I have seen shooting stars before and it could not have been that because she was like what was it a shooting star and I was like couldn’t have been. In order for it to have flashed blue and red so quickly in my opinion it was a flying saucer which appeared to be rotating therefore that is why it was blue and red.
My gf thought she saw blue and green but either way. I was also the one driving so I had my eyes on the road the whole time. It appeared to only be one aircraft but it was for sure trav! eling faster than any aircraft I have ever seen and the fact that it just disappeared is even more suspicious.
It didn’t look too far in the sky rather it appeared somewhat close. Also although it was slightly cloudy tonight they were very thin clouds and now that I look in the sky I can still see the stars and the clouds are broken up and thin therefore that would not have affected any perception/views.
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Potentially Huge UFO with 6 sets of a total 18 lights appears & takes off! I was standing near the sidewalk across the street from Bristol Home Depot. East was at my 12 position. The event was around 1030.
With 6pm behind me facing West. Now I looked up to 1030 position in the sky. To see a perfect line of lights.
6 main sets. With 3 in each. Sorta like the S in morse code.
I noticed it for 15 seconds & they either went up out of view of went off out of view. It was too big to be one craft. I don't believe in UFO stuff.
But this is very unusual.*I'm sure others seen it. I had no time to sign into cellphone & take photos.
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Brilliantly lit flat object of large size seemingly falling from space at sunrise Craft looked to be falling with brilliant streaks from all sides. Object appeared flat in the picture I took. Did not make the standard fireball effect of a meteorite.
Looked more like something on reentry from space.It was just before full sunrise and was brightly lit up against the lighting of the sun rising to the east over the horizon beyond it. Had substantial size based on the size in the sky compared with the huge satellite dishes of our company in the foreground.
No noise was distinguishable during the occurrence. I spotted it and called to fellow officers to look and the three of us all witnessed it. It disappeared behind the tree line over the horizon to the east.
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They were like light blueish/ white circles moving in a figure 8 position repeatedly for a few hours.
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Strange light formation appeared to be surveying residential area While taking my dog out quickly in my yard I saw in the sky about 13-15 strange lights in the sky, they were very large and dull in color as though they were high above the clouds. 10-12 of them were white and flying extremely fast in sync with each other making swirly shapes together, these lights would disappear for a bit and re appear every so often. Surrounding these white moving lights were three black stagnant dim lights in almost a triangular shape surround the white lights that consistently stayed present.
After watching this for a few minutes I returned inside and about twenty minutes later checked again to see the formation now flying over the whole neighborhood. It almost reminded me of a very strong light show that a Las Vegas casino would have but this was in a very small residential area with no possible way of having any lights this strong.
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I WENT OUTSIDE AT 1 AM TO SEE IF IT WAS CLEAR ENOUGHT TO SET UP MY VIXEN 120MM F/8.3 REFRACTOR TELESCOPE, IT WAS CLOUDY THEN I NOTICED THE LIGHTS , THERE WERE 14 OF THEM TRAVELLING IN A BIG FIGURE EIGHT PATTERN IN THE SKY LIKE "FOLLOW THE LEADER" BUT THEY WERE IN GROUPS OF TWO, I WENT IN MOUSE AND GOT OUT MY EDMUND SICIENTIFIC HELIUM NEON CLASS 3B LASER AND HOOKED IT TO THE 220/120V INVERTER AND FIRED A BEAM IN THE SHY AT IT, THE LIGHTS DISPERSED AND WENT AROUND THE BEAM BUT MAINTAINED THEIR FIGURE 8 PATTEREN,, AND WENT AROUND THE LASER BEAM. , I HAVE DSLR PHOTOS OF IT ON MY NIKON D200, HAD TO SET IT AT ASA 100, AND FIRE OFF -1.
3 SEC SHOTS THE LIGHTS WERE A STEADY SPEED I ESTIMATE THEY WERE GOING 500MPH TO COVER THE DISTANCE THEY DID IN A FIGURE EIFHT PATTERN.
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Light in the sky moving in strange ways. Very bright light (brighter than planes) that occasionally flickers. It’s moving erratically, as if searching for something (up, down, left, and right).
Short periods of remaining still. Nothing on the air radar. Still active now.
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Ball of light UFO at incredible speeds, turns then vanished. I was standing on the sidewalk near a park and I looked up and saw an extremely bright circular UFO going at incredible speeds towards the tree line and then it took a left 90° turn instantly and vanished about 2 seconds later. It was incredible.
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Red fire ball visible over Farmington Bristol boarder moving leaving a trail then stoping all of a sudden and moving again later only one craft observed.
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Two kidney bean shaped objects witnessed by 4 in Bristol CT. On Saturday, 06/30/18, around 14:00 Eastern standard, I parked my car and got out to have my neighbor and his father tell me to look up at the sky. I looked up and observed two objects to the NW.
My guess at altitude would be well over 30,000 feet. The reason I say that is that a commercial airliner passed below the objects while at cruise altitude. Both objects we're moving independently of each other.
One would be climbing rapidly as the other held altitude, or one would move west as the other East. The objects we're silver in color but not reflective. They we're sort of kidney bean shaped with something like a hose or pipe extending straight down.
My wife and I watched them for about 30 minutes untill one climbed above a cloud and the other moved to the west and we lost sight. My neighbor said that there were 4 before I got home, but I only witnessed 2.
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addendum to earlier report On June 30, 2018, I saw what I thought was the sun glinting off of an airplane in the western sky around 11:15 AM. I witnessed three more pin hole spots which just hung in the sky ( as bright as venus). Eventually I saw a total of 5 with my naked eye and went in and got my dad who came outside and witnessed them as well.
They were moving slow and against the wind ( which the clouds were blowing SW ). They split up and two went South, two went North and the rest glittered off and on until they faded. At the time I thought they were drones.
I saw a jet fly right above one ( they were below clouds) and it slowly “ drifted “ to around 20 degrees off of pole center and faded in the cloud cover that was heading in. During this I saw my neighbor over the fence and told him to look up, I grabbed my binoculars and went over to his house where the three of us observed a bent tic tac silver shape with a cable hanging from the bottom. I got no pictures of it because I l! eft my phone on the table when I left, but we all observed it through binoculars (see attached drawing ).
I will ask them to file a report as well. The whole thing took over 25 minutes until we could no longer see anything due to that silvery cloud cover. I'm unsure as to what exactly these were, but I have never seen a craft like this.
After adding a photoshop “FIND EDGES” filter to the images I can count 9 for sure but could only see 5 with my naked eye. Greg Carlson Here is a link to my photo’s https://drive.google.
com/open?id=1-xUeVEGK9R_bInVIpjRF2rXlj1esXoQ5 its my google drive with public access. If there is any issues with the photos please feel free to contact me.
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8 slow moing objects. I saw a bright object in the western sky. Then 3, then 5 and finally 8.
they were enlongated tic tac shaped with a reddish end with a long cable hanging down. They went in different directions. two turned south, three went north and the others just hovered slowley above my head for 40 min.
They changed shape from a bent tic tac to an hourglass on its side. they rotated slowly and faded and vanished. ((NUFORC Note: Photo provided, but somewhat ambiguous, we believe.
PD)).
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Lights moving across the night sky and disappearing, all at the same place. My brother and I were on our way home from a movie. Just as he dropped me off at my place, we noticed these big orange lights moving across the sky.
They would appear in the southeast, headed west, and then disappear as they reached certain point. There were about 4 or 5 at a time in view, and they were absolutely silent - no noise at all. My mother, who was inside the house with my father, came out and watched them with us, until they stopped appearing.
I didn't count them, but there were quite a few - they all came from about the same place, they all disappeared at the same place. They were pretty, but the silence was so strange - eerie, really. My brother thought they were balloons with candles or lights in them.
I disagree. They were too high, and really far away. I'm sure there is probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for what we saw - I'll read about some weird night balloon festival happening in the next town over, or something similar.
But for now! , I'm going with UFOs. (Much more fun that way, I think!).
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bristol ct light 1 minute small, white light seen during marching band practice by one member Small, white light/dot seen moving slowly up in a vertical motion. It paused above a cloud for around ten seconds then shot straight up out of view. At least 10 jetplanes were seen that night in the area, including one military.
Seen during a High School marching band practice by one member. ((NUFORC Note: We have amended the time above, in order to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD)).
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Circling light in sky over Bristol's Rockwell Park Light in the sky moved in a tight consistent circle, avoiding leaving cloud cover. When it had no choice, it seemed to disappear. Camera phone glitched out taking picture of star and child chalk drawing, and bright white light flashed, turning red.
No shaft of life (as per a spotlight) could be seen. A friend and I pursued it , and noted the circular pattern was consistent. Always making the rotation in the same time (slower for slow rotations, faster for large).
4 crafts, like from Bradly AFB seemed to be monitoring.
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They were red lights in formation all traveling at the same speed. At first I thought they we're an airplane but there was too many of them and too close together. There were no blinking lights they stayed all read they moved from the south east towards would've been the Hartford skyline.
And they just disappeared. The initial group were followed by two more traveling which appeared to be the same speed and disappeared in the same location.
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I and around 10 other people traveling W on I-84 by Bristol, CT, saw 8 reddish orange orbs flying in formation, and disappearing one by one. ((ADDENDUM BY WITNESS)) Yes this occurred in Bristol Connecticut and I was traveling on interstate 84 West alone. But I pulled over and other drivers did, as well.
((END ADDENDUM)).
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Sunset size white light over mountain that switched to dark orange.did not move or fade. 8:30pm.
In photo, a ball shape is seen. At 8:30 pm on may 8th, 2014, I walked by my bedroom window and a large white light over the mountains caught my eye. The mountains are located near lake compounce amusment park.
This area is not near the park and is covered in trees. The white light looked like a sunset against the dark sky. It stayed white for over five minutes.
I grabbed my camera to take a picture and then like a light switch the light turned a dark orange. It stayed the same sunset shape slightly over the mountain. The light never moved at all, just changed colors.
From my point of view it was the size of a sunset. The light was very large others must have seen it. I was afraid it was a forest fire.
but the orange light didn't grow and I didn't see or smell smoke. I didn't hear anything either although I was a few miles away. The last I saw the light was 9:45 ish.
I went back to the window at 10:00pm and a fog rolled in and I couldn't see the top of the mountain. My photo is dark I couldn't see the large round shape, however I lightened the photo and in the center of the light I saw a disk shape floating above the mountain! I didn't see a disk with my eyes. only in the photo.
It's not a plane because it did not more once. I didn't hear any reports of fires in those woods. There is no reason that I've found for that light.
Bristol, Connecticut UFO Sightings 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 | 11 reported sightings | 26.19% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Bristol, Connecticut UFO Sightings 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 | 10 reported sightings | 23.81% of all reports |
August | 8 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Bristol, Connecticut UFO Sightings 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 | 13 reported sightings | 30.95% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Saturday | 6 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 2.38% of all reports |
Bristol, Connecticut UFO Sightings 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 | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
08/30/13 | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
01/05/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
08/06/09 | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
07/06/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Bristol, Connecticut UFO Sightings 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 | 25 reported sightings | 59.52% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
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