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Redding, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Redding, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "other" (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
- 2011 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 02/22/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Redding, Connecticut
These Redding, 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:
Cluster of lights and a plethora of abnormal activity over weeks, years My family has been in Redding CT for generations. My grandmother told me countless stories of her own that took place in that town. Although I didn't have my own experiences until my mid twenties.
Near my house, the Saugatuck Reservoir stretches miles of road all the way down to Wilton CT. Towards the end of high school, my friends and I would marvel at the lights that were over the woods and reservoir. They would move in and out of the tree line at a place called devils den, then emerge in plain view to hover in groups, sometimes as many as six.
I remember seeing these lights constantly after we discovered them, as soon as it got dark they were always there. When I was 24, I moved back home for a couple months and totally forgot about the strange lights. I never really knew what to make of them and don't believe in anything paranormal, so I dismissed them entirely.
Until one night when I was getting ready to watch a monday night football game with my friend and girlfriend. I was placing an order for pizza on the phone, when my friend became fascinated with an on old dusty tin can loaded with change sitting on my shelf. It had been there for years.
I looked at him, then at the can and noticed it was shaking and emitting almost a humming noise. While I was placing the order on the phone, both him and my girlfriend got closer to the object and it got louder. Sure enough, my friend reached out to touch it and it flew across the room.
Total elapsed time was about a minute. Considering we were grown adults, we did not panic. I kept saying it was a mouse or something, my friend kept joking that it was a ghost.
Needless to say, we coul! dn't do anything about it so we went to get our food. When we got back, all of us began our ascent up the stairs when the door to my room suddenly opened seemingly for us. That spooked us down the stairs right away.
I was the first to laugh, telling them that the door was most likely not properly closed and the motion of going up the old stair case jarred it free. My friend was adamant he saw the knob move, but I told him that has happened before and he calmed down. Old house, old door, no big deal.
My friend stayed to eat, but left soon after claiming he was tired. About an hour later, I was lying on my bed watching the game, adjacent to a window that gave me a pretty good view of the sky. All of the sudden, a jet like object came into my peripheral.
I looked over and saw it moving slowly, I was in the middle of pointing this object out to my girlfriend when it quickly went directly over my house, no more than 20 yards above the roof. Instantly, I ran outside and saw nothing. It was absolutely silent.
I knew it couldn't have b! een a jet or helicopter, but I convinced myself it was. The weeks after were strange. Doors kept opening, and I saw a figure constantly.
The only way I can describe him was a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln. Tall, skinny and what looked like a top hat. I don't know what the hell that experIence was, but I moved out soon after that.
My mother still lives in that house and started to tell me she has had experiences that she claims could only be 'ghosts', even though she never believed in that stuff just years ago. I have since moved away, first to Newtown in 2011 when I had a similar experience that I reported to this site. For reasons unrelated to this activity, I am now in PA.
and have not experienced any new activity in two years. I returned to visit my family for a couple days. I never made sense of those experiences, but years later, I remain curious.
I went back to the spot where I remember seeing those lights all the time, and sure enough they were there. Hovering, moving back and forth between the woods of devils den and wilton. There was a very recent ufo report in wilton from dozens of residents that was reported in their police log.
I have no idea what any of this stuff is or how it gets investigated, but I would tell any curious ufo hunter to go down to the Saugatuck reservoir in Redding on a clear night, for some reason I remember them being more animate on full moons, and watch the lights towards Wilton. A handful of times me and a friend saw them closer, below the tree line on Dayton road, the road alongside the entrance of devils den. Although I have been down that road many nights and the occurrence is rare.
Try to make sense of it if you can, but I'm glad to be far away from the area.
Full Report Text:
I could see a bright light in the distance. It was flying overhead and approaching in my direction. It flew directly over head.
It was dark but I could make out the shape. Imagine two triangles stuck together at their bases. At the tip of one triangle, the one leading, streaks of light were seen.
Then streaks of light in the center, and again at the tip of the other triangle. On the side corners of the triangle, on either side, were red lights. It must have been travelling at a great speed because it got overhead very quickly.
I did not hear very much sound, but there was a sound, but it did not sound like a plane. It was more quiet than that. Sort of a whooshing sound.
Full Report Text:
I saw a bright light that slowly moved through the sky and seemed to have striations that looked like lightning bolts eminating from it Tonight I saw a light that appeared to be south east from my location but much higher up than the planes and jets flying below. From my vantage point it appeared to be over long island. What struck me about the light was the brightness especially considering we have a storm blowing through tonight.
I was surprised to see this light through the thick clouds that were blowing over. Other stars would get covered over but this light would shine right through the clouds. After I noticed it and really started taking a look at it, I could see lines of light coming from the source that could be described as tentacles or lightning bolt shaped.
I thought those lines could have been a trick on my eyes but I blinked and changed perspective and the lines coming from the light stayed clear. After getting very interested, I got my camera to film it. Unfortunately after that I was not able to see the light at it's full brightness and my camera had a hard time picking it up.
By the naked eye, I could still see those lines coming from the light. It seemed very weired that I could see them as the clouds were still blowing through. The light wasn't moving with the same pattern as the stars.
When I first noticed it and started observing, the light moved but I didn't have a good position marked to figure out how far. It wasn't fast though and certainly didn't go shooting off in any direction. When I went in to get my camera and came out, the light was in a much different place but still generally in the same area being south east of my vantage point.
I tried to get photographic evidence of the light and set myself in a position I could remember with trees in the foreground. Although I was able to capture the light on my camera, I don't think it will be very useful because it is so dark out tonight and at that point the light seemed to be aimed somewhere else and thusly was not as bright. Things that were striking about this light are: * The color of the light was not at all like the stars or the planes flying over.
I'd describe it as an LED light while the stars were incandescent. There was a blue color in the light, it seemed. * The pattern the light moved in reminded me of a search pattern but the source was far too high for that to be the case.
* The striations coming from the light were truly bizarre. It was like seeing the source of multiple lightning bolts coming from a single source but lasting for minutes at a time. When the light was dim, I could still make out the lines but they weren't as easy to identify.
It seemed that every time the light shone bright, the striations were the same configuration however. * Although it wasn't immediately obvious, the light was moving. The pattern it was moving in was more like it was making observations of an area and then move on.
I never saw it shoot off in one direction or another but it would either slowly move while it was bright or go dim and then be bright in another spot that was maybe 5 or 10 degrees off from it's last spot. I have not pulled the camera video onto my computer yet but would be willing to post it onto a server for you to observe. Please email me for that information.
Also please understand that I do travel for as long as a week at a time so please be patient if I do not respond right away.
Full Report Text:
enormous silent craft My brother and I went to a lake for some night fishing. It was the period just before it gets dark and my brother said look at this! I looked up and saw what looked like normal spotlights, there were 5 in a horizontal line. I thought nothing of it.
I went back to fishing. He said hey look at this thing! I looked again, and now the lights were changing form- they went from a line to a 7 shape, to an L shape then to a cross type shape. I then began to pay attention to this.
We couldnt see anything else at this point. The lights were above the treeline approx. 300 yards away.
It was a clear night, stars out, moon shining. All of a sudden, there was no sky above us. It was black.
We could both feel what we can only describe as the field that exists between opposing magnets. It was weird. The craft then turned and some sky became visible again and at that point we could see the shape of this thing.
It was like a 55 gallon drum that was cut lenghtwise and laid flat. This thing was huge. Like a city block huge.
It made no noise, and aside from the "spotlights" we saw initially, it had no lights. We were scared beyond words. This thing was directly above our heads for what seemed like forever.
It eventually just moved up and away at a very slow rate of speed and ascent. We left immediately after that, when we got home we told our family about it and called the Redding police to see if anyone else had seen or reported this. We declined to leave our names because we did not want to be associated with this in any way.
Take this for what its worth- both of us saw what we saw, and to this day, I cannot stop looking at the sky. I am compelled to looking upward all the time. That image will stay with me until I pass.
It was extremely frightening and definitely not of this world whatever it was.
Redding, 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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Other | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Redding, 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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September | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Redding, 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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Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 75.00% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Redding, 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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02/22/11 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
06/25/13 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
07/15/88 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
09/28/10 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Redding, 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 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 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 Redding, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Redding, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Redding, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Redding, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Redding, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2010 |
1988 | 1 UFO Reports | Redding, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1988 |
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