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New Haven, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 34 UFO sighting reports in New Haven, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "unknown" (5 reports, 14.71% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 20.59% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 20.59% of total).
- 2020 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 14.71% of total).
- 07/20/86 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 2.94% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (17 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in New Haven, Connecticut
These New Haven, 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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Thought it was shooting star, no sound. Stopped/hung in mid-air. 3 red lights, turned green.
Lights turned white then flew west. A nice night, my husband (former Air Force) and I were on our deck enjoying the night. He looked up and said "Look! A shooting star!" I caught it flying diagonally downwards from the east (about a 30 degree trajectory) and it just stopped.
The "tail" of what we first thought was a shooting star dissipated very quickly before it stopped in mid-air. Just a small dot of light. Then three steady, round red lights poof! went on.
It just hung out there, perfectly still, in mid air for about a minute. Then the lights turned green for a few seconds. The lights went white and it sped off west.
We lost sight of it behind the trees. There was no sound, no chem trails, no light trail. No craft in the sky.
We unfortunately did not get a picture. We weren't quick enough. But I can draw a diagram to figure the distance and size.
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Object moved in straight line, "disappearing," then coming back, shimmering brightly, not in reflective pattern, very high in sky At approximately 10:45AM I observed an object in the sky from my kitchen window in my 3rd floor apartment in the Edgewood neighborhood of New Haven, CT. The object caught my eye because it occasionally shimmered very brightly. It appeared very small because of how seemingly high in the sky it was (above where I would expect to see an airplane).
It moved slowly in a straight line, much like when you see a satellite at night. I watched from the windows and lost site of it several times, it seemed to disappear into the blue of the sky. Then it would come back along the same trajectory that it had been traveling.
It appeared to be a rectangular shape, in an upright position. However when it shimmered it was so bright the shape could no longer be understood. The shimmering did not seem to have a consistent pattern.
It would occasionally shimmer at seemingly random intervals. Today's weather was warm with a bright blue sky, not a cloud in sight. This made the shimmering all the more confusing as it did not seem to make sense as reflection from the sun.
However, I do wonder how the objects extremely high altitude would affect my eyes interpretation of reflections. It continued moving at a consistent speed, along a straight trajectory until I could no longer see it through the windows.
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Looked out window saw ufo it appeared to fly behind the clouds.followed by two silver orbs 2 right after another then loud engine sound Friday evening around 9 PM July 14th I looked out my window I am on the 16th floor. There was a UFO outside my window.
I can't estimate how far away it was, but it looked like it was at the level of my apartment. It seemed like when I noticed them. They took off.
Then I saw. The aircraft began to go behind the clouds. And at that point, it seemed to turn and become the shape of a saucer.
Immediately following that, there were 2 orbs. I spotted silver transparent. They were also behind the clouds.
Then again, almost immediately standing at my window. I heard a very, very large engine like noise over my head like I said. I'm on the 16th floor and there's only one floor above me.
It almost seemed like they were coming after me. I didn't have a good feeling about it.
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A large unknown shaped object with bright lights hovering near the highway! I was driving home from work on 8/21/22. On I-91 North in New Haven, CT. I noticed a large object in the sky with bright lights, moving too slow to be a plane.
The UFO then seemed to hover to the right of the highway as I drove by it.
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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.
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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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unexplaine light moves traveling extremely fast, stops and disappears actual incident caught in video moving fast across over the footage.
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I saw 6 green lights in a rectangle shape that moved rapidly and synchronously within 1 minute. I was outside with my sister and her now husband. We were admiring the sky since it was really beautiful that night.
I took pictures with my phone. The moon is each photo. When I looked at the photos later, I saw 6 green circular lights in a rectangle shape high in the sky but very clear that moved position throughout the photos though the phone was not moved much (look at moon for reference).
I took 6 photos over a minute and within each one these lights move. In some, the lights are static; in others, it is moving rapidly as the lights are blurry.
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i witnessed a spherical silver metallic sphere shaped UFO in New Haven Connecticut' i was standing on the corner of Whalley Avenue and Hobart Street waiting for a bus at approximately 12:20 PM and I witnessed a shiny silver metallic craft that appeared to be spherical in shape. it was traveling slowly toward me when I first saw it at an altitude of under 1000 feet. i lost sight of it as it disappeared behind a tree that was across the street from my location.
I reached for my phone as it disappeared behind the tree thinking that it would come out from behind the tree but it never emerged.
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First there was a white light change colors red blue orange green for about twenty minutes stayed in the same place then can’t explain the next thing I saw was a orange bright light in the cry moving with a black cross in it moving side to side then disappeared the was another light same as the first we went outside to try to get a closer view the orange light with the black cross was gone the first light with still there it moved to the side and disappeared.
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Red ball seen over New Haven Bright, red-orange ball seen in the sky around 7PM from Front Street in New Haven. It was traveling steadily, smoothly, and silently north-west (from the south) towards East Rock/Hamden. I watched it for about one minute when it quickly faded out of sight.
It was not an airplane or helicopter—was a single, large light, No tail lights or noise. I noticed others in the neighborhood stopping to look at it, too.
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Troll under the bridge Driving under a bridge at 60mph. Scrolling back frame by frame, this is what I got. Looks like a small figure with a large head and webbed feet.
There is also a stick shaped figure in front of him. There is also some kind of suit next to him kind of looks like a scream mask.
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Westville neighborhood unknown object/light sky (low) twinkle a few times very gentle than it stopped, moved slowly to the right and disappeared. No noise, no wind. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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A metallic saucer shaped craft flew diagonally from the top of Heroes Tunnel in New Haven up about 500 ft to the right. It was the size of small vehicle. It then hovered next to another similar craft and then both saucers disappeared.
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Silver Oval flashed, hovered, and then disappeared. I was driving on CT Route 15. Something high in the sky flashed brightly.
I looked up to see what it was. I saw an oval grey/silver object hovering above. I stared at it for a few seconds trying to figure out what it was.
While I was looking at it, after a few seconds, it disappeared.
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Bright light in the sky very bright. It would dim out and get real bright and big again It's very dark and cloudy out I saw a star coming out the clouds but it got brighter and brighter then dim out.It did the same thing twice.
When it got brighter it got big and had for points like this + very bright light like head lights on a car but very bright. I don't know what I just saw? ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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While on interstate 91, approximately exit 9, headed south, I look across the north bound traffic sky over exit 8. It shined bright as a star, as I went to look at my phones camera button and looked again it was gone like that. Wish I could have gotten a photo! ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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White light thought was a star until it moved slowly then shot off into space. Looking up at the stars as I often do at night, I saw a bright white light I thought was a star over the horizon. Until it started to move in a clockwise motion from about 11:00 to the 2:00 position.
I thought it was a satellite as it was too high to be a plane when it just stopped at the 2:00 position. It stayed there for about 3 or 4 minutes when it shot out of the sky so fast, it streaked and was gone in less than 3 seconds.
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Hovering object above light house park changing colors ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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large groupe of red fire balls moving south in formation i went out to smoke facing east and saw six red fireballs heading south i continued to watch indoors for 45 minutes they kept coming from north to south in small groups the one at a time every minute and the every few minutes i the reported this to a police officer on my street who said there have been other reports tonight, and that they reported to be yellow.
New Haven, 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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Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Light | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
New Haven, 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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May | 7 reported sightings | 20.59% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
December | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
New Haven, 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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Saturday | 7 reported sightings | 20.59% of all reports |
Tuesday | 6 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
New Haven, 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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07/20/86 | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
05/01/13 | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
11/10/21 | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
12/25/03 | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
09/27/14 | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
New Haven, 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 | 17 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 8 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New Haven, Connecticut
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