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Meriden, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 51 UFO sighting reports in Meriden, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "fireball" (7 reports, 13.73% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 13.73% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 21.57% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 13.73% of total).
- 08/01/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 3.92% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (19 reports, 37.25% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Meriden, Connecticut
These Meriden, 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 was driving dogs back home and Did not know what it was started filming from my phone.
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Bright white orb that was silent moved north, then south then from west to east then back west. Using Night vision Binoculars,I was looking for ufos.I observed an object up in the night sky at around 10 or 11 o'clock pm moving from South to North slowly.
It looked like a star,it was small.when I flashed my light up in its direction, it stopped moving. If I hadn't been watching it, I would think it’s a star.
I flashed the light again and it began moving back South, then turned and went from West to East or my left to my right and started moving in front of me and it went from a small start to a large orb bright white light, seemed brighter that the Sun, like it shimmered.Its at this point I picked up the infrared night vision binoculars again which I had put down to look with my naked eyes, and that's where I started to video. Its shaky because I didn't have time to get a tripod and my adrenaline was pumping.
It moved across my vision up in the sky. I watched it move silently, it wasn't space junk or a plane, helicopter, drone, it moved intelligently and was completely silent. I flashed it again with my light and as seen, it got small again and moved back out into space.
later it came back and moved right to left up on the sky and was hard to see unless you had the Infrared binocs on. I have been doing this for 3 years and have seen many objects moving up in the sky,but this one was different. It changed direction a few times, went from dim to super bright then dim again, and it was silent, like it was watching or observing me because I had flashed a laser up in their direction.
Never at it of course.
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zig zag light, with a green after glow I was walking my dog and noticing how clear the night sky was. Suddenly a ball of light bounced up from the horizon and stopped. I thought I was seeing things and just kept starring at the light.
It stood still, so I brushed it off as a star and kept walking, but kept my eye on it, after 20 seconds, the light started zig zagging, thought maybe it was a drone, suddenly the light stopped moving, turned off, and you can see a green light (almost like electricity) flickering where the light was. after 20 seconds the light came back and lit up the entire sky, from that moment I could tell that the light was actually in space, because it lit up the space around it as if it was some sort of explosion, allowing you to gauge the distance. and it was reallly far.
then the light when back to it's normal light and continued to zig zag before heading east really fast.
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white Chevron shaped object flies faster than a jet, does loop and disappears This occurred 5 minutes after I saw the Black shiny object in the same part of a clear blue sky. I went back outside to see if I could see any more of the object that I had just saw. I was looking up in the sky and I saw to my left a white chevron shaped object appear.
I watched it thinking it was a seagull. But a seagull wouldn't be in the central part of Ct. It wasnt.
It was solid and it flew on an upward trajectory then accelerated to a speed greater than any jet I have seen. It flew right up where the Black object had dissappeared, did a loop dloop, and zipped up so fast I looked around to see if any of my neighbors had seen it. It was that crazy fast.
Then it was gone.
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Black object in clear blue sky with sun glistening off of it. The object was Black, looked like a flattened accordian. The sun glistened off it as it slowly turned and hovered.
I noticed it inside my house as I looked out the big window walking down the stairs. I saw a flash in the sky. I went outside and saw it.
I grabbed binoculars and watched it. I tried to film it with my phone but got nothing,it was too far. It eventually went up and was gone.
It was not a balloon.
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Large Cigar shaped craft clearly seen. The craft was clearly seen it appeared to be cigar shaped with a Half Dome on the top, it was flat on the bottom. The length of The Craft appeared to be about the width of Two And A Half full moons.
There were no lights emitting from The Craft, the Moonlight was shining off the top and lights from a nearby City we're reflecting off the bottom. The craft was swiftly moving from west to east at a high rate of speed and level flight.
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Was out for a walk and saw a very low flying JetBlue. After watching the jet noticed a flashing object in the distance. The object hovered for about 3 mins in the same place while flashing a very bright white.
Almost seemed to be reflecting off of the object and not a light as the lights on the jet were not visible and the flashing from the object was erratic. Object seemed to be gray when not flashing produced no noise. After the 3 mins, it started to move in the same direction as the jet almost looked to be following it.
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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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I saw a bright light hovering outside my window and it moved in a way I’ve never seen before. It would move up, down, side to side, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, then stop and then keep moving. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star.
PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I was on my deck when I noticed what looked like a fast moving fire ball shooting across the sky all of a sudden it slowed down and stopped over my neighbor's house when it started to turn myself and my wife witnessed another fire ball shooting across the sky when the first fire ball turned and shot off in another direction. A few minutes later, the second fire ball slowed down around and stopped the same exact place as the first one did then it turned in the same direction as the first one and speed off it was out of sight in just a few seconds about 5 minutes later a third speeding fire ball apaird from the same point in the sky stopped and turned in the same direction.as the first 2 this lasted about twelve to fifteen minutes.
When the first one appeared I thought it was a meteor but it could not have been one seeing it stopped and changed direction and then have two more do the same thing in the same place. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information about the sighting. PD)).
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one HUGE white fireball flying through the southern sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD)).
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Flew extremely low overhead. Silent craft, absolutely no noise. Single red/pink light on craft.
Moved from East to West. Passed over my dad's house & the neighbor's house across the street while releasing 4 small red balls of light that turned & disappeared before hitting the ground. They looked like firework embers, the way the died out.
& the UFO disappeared behind the trees.
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Giant light falls from the sky. I was sitting on my front step in South Meriden at between 6:00pm and 6:15pm, facing north when I saw a large bright fireball shoot straight down out of the night sky. It looked like it may have landed near Meriden Square or the mountains near there.
My first thought was that it was a missle but there was no explosion. The sky was too hazy for me to have seen a meteorite from that distance. It was definitely too large to be a meteorite, and if it was we would have heard or felt it hit the ground.
Very alarming!.
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1 Very Large triangle shaped 5 lights around it. flying low and slow just over the tree tops. several commercial aircraft flying above toward Bradley airport.
Clear skies shooting stars also observed. the UFO few slowly toward Hubbard park in Meriden CT. Shortly after much much higher in the sky coming from the south west a very fast moving bright UFO was traveling north east it was traveling so fast it caught up to and past 3 aircraft traveling in the sky.
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Six moving slowly orange round shapes flying in like a formation. At first I thought planes were too close but there were no lights like planes and the moved along at identical speeds. I have photographs, night time that show as lights three round and one photo shows as orange while another photo shows as cylinder shaped with colors and haze.
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Bright circle object. This was a round bright oblect. At first it was bright white like a spot light.
Then it turned bright blue. It appeared to be quick moving and was making quick 90' & 180' turns. It appeared toward the Castle Craig area.
((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether the object might have been a model aircraft, or a quadcopter, with blue LED lights. PD)).
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Shocking. I was coming to meriden from waterbury on i 691 at 5:45 pm. As i was getting closer to the castle craig area exit 4 i see a bright green object that i thought was a comet.
But the green light did not fade away. As i got closer i looked harder and realized it was a flying object. like a cigar shape With light on front of the object.
From left to right on the highway. I think it even caused an accident as traffic was backed up. Very unusual for that area.
I got off the exit and drove to the little airport to see if there was any sign of traffic. And to my supprise it looked closed to me. I can't get the image off my head.
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I was driving up east Main Street to dunkin donuts when to my left I saw like 8 balls of orange/red in the sky. I went to dd and on my way back down east Main Street the balls of fire had separated. I proceeded to follow them when I saw another person on the side of the road taking video of these objects with his phone.
I stopped to speak to this gentleman and he too saw what I was seeing. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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bright blue disk with two bright red lights, hovering and moving back and forth in the sky until it disappeared. My boyfriend and I were sitting on our front porch when we saw a blue disk with two red lights enter into our field of vision from the right, acsending at the same speed and angle as an airplane. After a moment, it stopped and hovered in the sky, then began to move toward us, then away a few times, then hovered again, and moved up and down a few times.
I pulled out my phone to take a video but by then it had disappeared. Airplanes were also in the sky at the time, but this object appeared slightly larger and its lights were much more vibrant. It moved with far more precision than an airplane as well.
It was a very shocking sight for us both, neither of us had ever seen anything like it in the sky before, and we cannot think of any other explanation for it.
Meriden, 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 | 7 reported sightings | 13.73% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 13.73% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 9.80% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
Light | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Meriden, 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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June | 7 reported sightings | 13.73% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 13.73% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 9.80% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 9.80% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 9.80% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 9.80% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
Meriden, 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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Wednesday | 11 reported sightings | 21.57% of all reports |
Saturday | 10 reported sightings | 19.61% of all reports |
Monday | 8 reported sightings | 15.69% of all reports |
Sunday | 6 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Thursday | 6 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 9.80% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
Meriden, 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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08/01/20 | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
01/12/07 | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
11/16/13 | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
11/08/03 | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
07/23/17 | 1 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Meriden, 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 | 19 reported sightings | 37.25% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 18 reported sightings | 35.29% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 3.92% of all reports |
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