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Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 10 UFO sighting reports in Derby, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "fireball" (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 20.00% of total).
- 07/04/10 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 10.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Derby, Connecticut
These Derby, 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 saw the flying object in the sky I was looking out if my bedroom window last night to see the moon because it looked like two moon’s maybe three. I was taking pictures of it and videos. I did not notice the flying object until I watched the video this evening 3/8/23.
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I was in the passengers seat heading to a friend's house I saw a pretty big sized egg shaped craft in the sky it was hovering and shining a kind of rainbow neon lights that rotated around the craft.
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Perfectly straight trajectory, circular, 10,000 mph at least, 10,000 feet up, silver, unlike anything I could comprehend Laying down looking up spotted what I thought was a bird at first, but then realized it was moving way too fast and realized it was thousands of feet up. I then thought it could be a jet but it was perfectly circular. There was also no jet stream and it was moving faster than any jet I've ever seen.
I would guess it was moving at least 10,000 miles an hour or more. The object however had what looked to be a tail of some sort. In fact it looked kind of like a balloon, because this "tail" was more underneath the object.
It was so far away that it was very small. I would think weather balloon, or possibly even satellite, but it was just moving way too fast, and I don't think satellite because it was only maybe 10,000 feet above ground, and not a balloon because again, the speed and trajectory. I had a very wide view it came out of the clouds but the sky was otherwise beautifully clear.
It was about 3 or 4pm full daylight. The trajectory was west to east and direction, speed, and height did not change. It was silver in color.
I stared until I lost it in the treeline. It's like nothing I've ever seen.
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Witnessed seven Fireball objects flying near the Derby Dam On the night of July 6, 2012 at approximately 21:10; my brother, best friend and I were fishing at the Derby dam. At this time we all witnessed a solo fireball, at approximately 5000 feet in the air flying rather slowly over CT Route 34 heading eastwards towards CT Route 8. This flight seemed to last for about a minute before disappearing into cloud cover.
Approximately 3 minutes later we then witnessed five more fireball looking object flying in the same direction as the first object did. This time the first three objects flew in a triangle shaped formation while the last two flew side by side. This time we could see the first formation slow down and speed up, while the second formation mimicked the first group as if it was avoiding crashing into it.
This slowing down and speeding up happened at least five times as the flight of these two formations seemed to take approximately five minutes. These two formations then disappeared into the cloud cover as did the first solo object. My best friend then left our location at 21:30 and he went home.
At 22:03, my brother and I were heading back to our vehicle when we witnessed a solo fireball object flying in the same direction as the first six fireball objects. After watching the flight for a minute we backed up our vehicle and left the dam.
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strange orange fireball streaks across sky,stops,shines two lights and turns into spacecraft and bolts straight up and out og sight. I was walking a friend's dog on Hawthorne Ave., when I noticed what looked like a round fireball traveling from Shelton towards Derby fairly low in the sky.
This light orange yellow fireball had a darker orange color around the outer edge. I thought it would shrink and burn out, but it continued to move rapidly towards where I was viewing this fascinating ball of flame, and then I pulled out my phone camera and clicked two photo's from the middle of the street, when all of a sudden the fireball shone two lights that did not blink, but just shone like it was attached to something solid. Then all of a sudden the whole fireball went straight upwards and then changed directions and headed eastward for a few seconds, then I could see it staying still while clouds passed by, and then it took off straight upwards and out of sight.
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multiple colored object moving extremely slow through the sky There was a light in the sky that at first seemed like a star, but started to change all different colors i had never seen in the sky before. Every time I looked away and looked back it had changed position until after about 25 minutes it completely dissapeared behind the skyline.
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LED like white lights, with red and green or blue Some times appeared like a string, lights appeared to be LED white with LED red and LED green or blue. Looking from Derby Ave/ Naugatuck River, the siting was to the west over WoodBridge.
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Fireball moving across the sky It was just before 10pm on July 4 in Derby, CT, and my girlfriend and I had just gotten to my house. I had ran inside real quick to turn on the air conditioner and neighbors were setting off fireworks and an orange ball of fire came from over the trees near where the neighbors were. My girlfriend yelled to me from outside thinking it was one of the fireworks headed for the house and when I finally got outside to see what she was yelling about, the object continued across the sky from West to East at a constant speed.
At first, I thought it was a plane on fire, but it wasn't exactly a "flashing light" that you would typically see on an airplane, it really looked like something on fire moving across the sky. It looked like it was about the size of a plane, but it was flying far to low. We lost sight of the object after it went over my house, and when we walked around the house to track it, the object was gone.
It could have possibly been a missile launch, it definitely was not fireworks. I'm not sure how many people witnessed this event other than the two of us. I'm hoping that we weren't the only ones.
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SUMMARY: Two large lights were seen high in the sky. The objects swung around, changing position with one another, then the top object vanished. The other remained visible as we traveled forabout 20 miles.
I was driving, and my friend ((name delted)) was a passenger. We were on Route 8, on our way from Naugatuck, CT to Norwalk, CT. About 1/3 of the way to Norwalk, in Derby, I spotted two large, bright lights in the sky, and pointed them out to ((name deleted)).
The lights were larger than a visible planet would appear; the closest description I can give as to size was that they were similar in size to street lights viewed from a car, only they were clearly very high in the sky, so the actual size of the objects had to be enormous. We watched the objects, which were hovering in place, the one on the left a little higher than the one on the right. Suddenly, the objects moved, rotating around one another (top to bottom) to switch places with one another.
Then, the one which had moved to the top winked out, just vanished. There was a faint trail leading upward where that one had been, but it disappeared quickly. I drove another few exits to Shelton, CT, where we got off of the highway onto Bridgeport Avenue.
We stopped at a car dealership which had a clear view of that part of the sky (I'd say, south, maybe south east part of the sky--I'd have to look at a map to be more specific--we were driving generally south at the time). We got out of the Jeep and stood in the lot, watching the remaining light. It kept its position.
After a few minutes, we got back into the Jeep, and I continued to drive to Norwalk. We watched the light all the way to Norwalk; it remained the in the same part of the sky the entire way (probably for a total of 20 miles or so), so it had to be pretty high up. When I dropped ((name deleted)) off at her home, I had one more look at the object by a running track near her house, then I headed home (driving north, so I could no longer see it in front of me).
I couldn't see the part of the sky where it was when I got home, so I just went inside. The lights were pale yellow or white-ish in color. I thought they seemed round, but ((name deleted)) said at the time (and has maintained) that they seemed triangular to her.
They were definitely not airplanes (we saw plenty of planes in the sky that night--no comparison). They also didn't behave like planes. I'm 29 years old, female, married, a webmaster/graphic designer by profession.
I've never seen any unusual phenomena in the sky before, and have always been skeptical about the whole UFO thing. While these lights may not be alien in nature, I certainly can't explain them (if you figure out what they were, please let me know!) I don't know ((name deleted)) age (mid to late 40s perhaps). She is currently attending college full time to get her masters in painting, and I believe a certificate to teach (or something of that nature).
If I can give you any further specifics, please contact me.
Derby, 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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Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Derby, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Derby, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Derby, 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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07/04/10 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
08/12/11 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
07/04/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
07/06/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
04/18/14 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Derby, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Derby, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Derby, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 2 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2010 |
1996 | 1 UFO Reports | Derby, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1996 |
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