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Portland, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Portland, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "oval" (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 07/08/07 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the early morning, between the hours of 04:00 - 07:59 (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Portland, Connecticut
These Portland, 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).
Full Report Text:
CT RIVER PENINSULA SIGHTING(s). 2 Witnesses kayaking just before dawn. 3-6am.
6/21/14 A longtime friend and I were fishing in kayaks on the Connecticut River. He and I are both 34 year old college educated males. We both work nights (I've been a full time firefighter EMT-B for 7 years), so it's not unusual for us to go out in the CT river or on the Mattabasset all night and stay out sometimes into the next day until almost lunchtime.
I am (or was) a UFO skeptic. Always have been. He is a believer.
I usually roll my eyes and laugh at some of the things he's said he's seen in the past. But this came out of nowhere. We weren't looking for it.
We were trying to catch some bass. No drinking or substances involved. Just glad to be not at work with no obligations and fishing finally.
We started the trip from the Portland Fairgrounds. May or may not be entirely right to launch from where we did, but it was getting late and we wanted to get in. Both of us have bright LED's that illuminate the surrounding water and trees.
We put the fishing off to head way down river (south). I kept asking when we were going to be at this "spot" my friend had fished in the past. Was a long trip down river.
Probably a few miles. So when we saw what we both saw, we may have been near Portland, Cromwell, Rocky hill, Wethersfield, Glastonbury. I'm not 100% sure.
But local fisherman have nicknamed the spot "the peninsula". It's an island in the middle of the river near "Perzold's Marine/Marina". We were heading to the back side the peninsula (downstream).
Still in the middle of the CT river, We both saw something in the sky to the East. It was bright white, big, crescent shaped, appeared suddenly and went down diagonally and to our left, moving very fast, until it disappeared behind the tree line. We both said "Whoa!" At the same time.
We talked about it afterwards and I kept thinking of things it could've been but they all turned out to be impossible. Closest I could think of would've been a comet or shooting star. But this was too big, too white, no tail, & too fast.
It happened very quickly and was gone. So we kept moving. Our moment of wonder was soon replaced by the fact that we were at the peninsula and it was time to fish now.
My friend went to shore and started a fire on the beach area. I kept paddling and casting near the shore for a bit before heading over. I got out and we got a small fire going.
(Fire ordinances don't apply if you're in the middle of the river just before sunrise and don't know exactly what town you're technically in. right? Lol). Then it got wierd enough to remember for a long time and even report on here (I can't believe I'm doing this btw.
). I was standing by the fire. For some reason I got the urge to look back over my right shoulder and up at the sky.
Why? Because something was there. That's the only reason I can think of why I'd look. I had already forgotten about the other event.
I looked up and saw a strange light moving a great distance at a medium pace, steadily in a straight line towards us across the sky (was heading west toward the Wethersfield side of the river.) Things then escalated to wierd level 2: the thing had one bright light. And as it got closer to being over head the light got dimmer and dimmer until it vanished completely.
No clouds. Perfectly clear, still dark, just before dawn. It was gone.
I turned my head back to my friend who was over on the left casting his line into the water. I quickly told him what I just saw and how wierd it was. He turned to look at me as I was talking.
I looked up at the sky again and what we saw next made us both yell out profanities at exactly the ! same time. Diagonally In front of us, slightly northwest but just overhead, something shot across the sky faster than anything man made can move and in a way that stars, comets, or anything like that can move. This display, to me had "technologically advanced machine" written all over it.
It made a line in the sky visible for less than a second. It was bright white and shaped like an archer's bow. Fast as hell and bright white.
But this time, it didn't disappear afterwards. It looked as if it went hundreds of miles in a second to the north, and then stopped and hovered just above the tree line. And as it hovered it turned towrard us.
And then it was possible to see more of its shape. It wobbled like a saucer as it turned toward us and then sat in a fixed position "watching us" as we fished. The front view it allowed us showed a multicolored string of lights around its cylindrical, saucer shaped perimeter.
It say there for a while in the sky just before s! unrise, almost as if it was waiting for us to come to terms wi! th what we both saw, talk about it, and get comfortable with it to the point that we could just fish, know it's there, talk about it, and move on. Which is what we did basically. I've texted and talked about it with him in person since it happened just to verify the reality of it.
I was completely blown away. There was no way I could dispute this or write it off as something else. He's happy because he "won", in that sense.
But all I can think about now is wanting to see more. And I feel like a gift of knowing there's some other beings up there has been given to me. Pretty awesome.
Next trip, I'll have my iPhone ready to take pics instead of tucked away in the watertight box I keep it in. Have even thought about getting a telescope. I'm amazed.
That's all I can say. Thanks.
Full Report Text:
3 round objects floating-picture on this sites home page is.exactly what we saw 3 large objects seen floating around they moved high up and then 2 merged together and then we only saw 2. After a few seconds there were 3 again.
All 3 objects were moving slow and they were very high up. All 3 formed a straight line and disappeared. I have a good friend who is an expert on UFO's and we did get pictures and he said they are definitely ships.
In addition, when I looked at this sites home page, there is a picture of someone who captured 3 objects in the sky and that.picture is exactly what we saw!!!.
Full Report Text:
bright white light high in sky that flashed red + green lights and "danced" around in swift movements at 3:30 AM EST i woke up and looked out the window to a clear night sky with a clear view of the stars. i noticed this star seemed to be flickering and looked to be reddish, but my glasses were off. so i put my glasses on and looked again.
it was a light hovering high in the sky above a neighborhood along the Connecticut river in Portland, roughly north of Main St. i watched it until 4:45 AM. it continuously stayed in my vision in the same spot, but sometimes dancing around that spot and hovering up and down.
the whole time it was flickering red, green, and white lights as far as i could tell. sometimes it would be moving intensely in swift motions as if it were swirling around that spot in the sky, and then all of a sudden it would just pause and hover in the same spot and it seemed to me that at that point the flashing colored lights would stop flashing as rapidly as they were before, when the UFO was "dancing." so it did this repeatedly throughout the 45 minutes of watching it, it was absolutely fascinating and is the reason i woke up so tired this morning.
i am aware NASA launched a rocket last night that would be visible throughout all of New England, but I googled it and NASA launched the rocket at around 11:30 EST. so correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think that was the rocket that was launched. plus this UFO was clearly flying around in the same spot in OUR atmosphere, it wasn't moving towards a destination.
i've never seen any vehicle in the air make movements as swift as the ones this UFO was making. not a plane, helicopter, chinese lantern, or weather balloon. it was definitely a vehicle that could fly and there were definitely bright colored red, green, and white lights.
also at some points when it seemed to be dancing more intensely, either the object would get slightly bigger (or maybe it was turning or something), or the white lights got momentarily brighter. also, i woke my boyfriend up to take a ! look at it and he verified that it was indeed moving and he sa! w the co lors.
Full Report Text:
Fireball,very low and then went higher into the sky and dissappeared 7/8/2007 saw a glowing ball of fire acroos the street over my neighbors house,we thought it was a plane om fire,however no noise and this was definetly a cicle shape like a ball. looked like it came from across the connecticut river from middletown then to portland.veered west torward high street,kind of slow.
went faster and further up in the air until we couldn't see it anymoreno tail,.no other lights,zig zagged a little bit and nothing changed color.just a ball of fire.
a minute or 2 later we saw what looked like a smaller plane in the EXACT same direction !!!!!!!.
Portland, 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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Oval | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Portland, 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 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Portland, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 75.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Portland, 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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07/08/07 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
09/07/13 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
05/31/14 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
06/21/14 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Portland, 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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Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Portland, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Portland, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2014 | 2 UFO Reports | Portland, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Portland, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Portland, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2007 |
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