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Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 18 UFO sighting reports in Shelton, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 27.78% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 22.22% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 22.22% of total).
- 2019 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 27.78% of total).
- 11/04/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 5.56% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (9 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Shelton, Connecticut
These Shelton, 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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A line of four spaced out bright red lights. Looked up images of space x and the do not match what we saw. We were driving home from work I look at the sky frequently and saw the lights.
I said to my husband look at the sky and he saw and began recording. We got off the highway to get a better view and saw two more. They seems to be moving together then stopped and disappeared.
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Lights and loud sound At first I thought there was a helicopter trying land on my apartment it was so loud, my ears began to ring so I quickly went to look out my window and saw a ring of lights around my apartment. I ran to grab my phone to record what I was experiencing and everything stopped suddenly. Suddenly there are cars driving by and people walking outside.
It’s almost as if they were gone while this was happening and when it stopped everything went back to “normal”.
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I went to smoke a cigarette last night on my backporch and noticed a brighter orange colored star do I thought in the sky. I immediately got my phone out and took a picture. Only when I zoomed in I can see this light make like zigzags in the sky.
It then looked like it changed color. My 16 yr old son came home around 1030pm and we started taking videos. We then found like 4 or 5 more all throughout the sky.
they looked like flashing lights in the night sky. We then took pics and videos because now they were turning into what looked like spheres and all different shapes. One of the pictures we took actually shows the bottom of the object and it clearly shows a circle bottom and then it like disappears and shoots off the screen.
I also took a video of all 3 in 1 video to show it wasn't just a fluke happening. It was actually something in the sky.
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Green meteorite came out of sky, de-flames itself if that’s a word, spacecraft hovering in air, disappears into thin air, warp drive ? I came to a stop sign with my friend after dropping another friend off at their house. As we stopped at the stop sign at 11:00 pm we saw a green Meteorite over a field called “ Stowe field” in shelton ct, it came down from the sky, extremely bright, not even a second later this green meteorite basically de- flames itself if that’s even a word, and we both see this spacecraft just hovering, grey in color with green outlines, almost looked identical to a fighter jet from Star Wars, then me and my friend not even blinking an eye see this spacecraft disappear into thin air and it vanishes, I would say some kind of warp drive system as silly as it sounds.
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Bright like that suddenly vanished Extremely bright light stationary in the air not moving. Then vanished out of nowheee.
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Three hovering orange lights that moved at incredible speed. At 18:25 on Dec 23, 2019, I witnessed three unusually bright orange lights in the South to Southwest sky. They were motionless for about 2 minutes.
I went into the house to get my son and when we returned there was only one. It made no sound but suddenly started to move extremely quickly in an almost straight line until it was obscured by the clouds as it went above them and disappeared from sight. I.
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Circular object with lights underneath seen in images taken of cloud formation 11/29/2019: Jones Tree Farm, Shelton, CT While selecting our family Christmas tree, I noticed a nice cloud formation and an ice prism. I took out my phone and snapped several pictures in succession. The bright sun that day made it difficult to see the viewing glass of the phone and was basically shooting blind.
A short while later I reviewed the images and saw something I was not expecting to- a disc shaped object, just left of the cloud formation. In successive images the object appears in three different locations. I electronically zoomed -in with the phones camera to see the object better.
I immediately saw a dark circular object with what appears to be lights on the underside. One image has four in a square pattern. One has four in a diamond-shaped pattern.
The third shows five lights. These all together distinctly tell me this object was in motion. I have all the images and will be e-mailing the files.
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Arrowhead shaped craft with anomalous-looking array of red-green strobes Arrowhead shaped craft with unusual configuration of lights - POSSIBLY anomalous: Monday evening, approximately 6:15PM - full dark. Thin clouds, about 1,000 ft altitude. Was driving SW on Route 8, right-hand lane, toward Stratford, between exits 12 and 11 in Shelton.
To my right (West), above tree line, about 45 degrees in night sky I noticed an approaching aircraft about a mile away (flying NE) that drew my attention because of its strangely pulsing array of lights (Yes, I frequently watch the skies. Am no aviation pro, but familiar enough with most of the steady air traffic in my vicinity, anti-collision and navigation lights, etc.).
This aircraft looked to be traveling at an altitude of about 300 feet going NE, parallel to Route 8, above Route 714 (Bridgeport Avenue), in the vicinity of the shopping area there (and "Scinto-ville"). Very bright multiple pairs of red and green lights that did not strobe alternately, port-middle-starboard or vice-versa, per second, like most aircraft, but pulsed red-green simultaneously and much faster all about the surface of what seemed to be an arrowhead shaped craft. No, NOT a helicopter - I know Sikorsky is nearby.
If it made any noise I could not hear it because windows were rolled and I was in moving vehicle heading in opposite direction. As we passed I slowed down somewhat, attempting to get a better look up through front window, but was unable to make out any fuselage or wings. Size was difficult to determine, but seemed larger than most private planes but smaller than most commercial planes.
Therefore, I decided to get off at the next available exit, turn around and try to catch up to it. Doing so only trapped me in routine after-work traffic back-up.
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Ball of flashing red/gree/white lights observed moving for 20-30 minutes My location: 41*17’60”N - 17*11’26”W, elevation 390 ASL. Object was observed at 49* NE from this location at an elevation of about 20* above horizon. No clouds, clear night with many bright stars.
(*) means degrees. At about 10:00pm, I stepped out my back door. With the naked eye, I observed what I thought was an aircraft practicing stalls at night.
Being a former glider pilot and life long aviation enthusiast, I am familiar with aircraft at night. I also have a steady stream of aircraft overhead leaving JFK and heading across in the Atlantic flight corridor. I could see red, green/blue and white lights and thought these to be the port/starboard/landing lights of an aircraft.
The lights were clustered together and blinking rapidly. Imagine those colored LEDs blinking quickly on a wreath but this was in the shape of a tight ball. As I continued to watch the lights slowly swoop up and down through a space of 1.
0 to 1.5 degrees of sky, (using fingers,) I realized that the lights were wrong for an aircraft. I observed perhaps 8-12 swoops.
Each swoop was in a slightly different direction in the sky, some to the left, others to the right. Each swoop was a duration of 4-5 one thousand from top! to bottom. I had excellent reference for elevation changes as the event occurred between two stationary trees with horizontal branches.
After observing for perhaps 10 minutes or more, I went in and grabbed my binoculars (Bushnell 16x50) and returned outside. I moved my observation position 4 feet right to gain a clear, unobstructed view without branches but still between two trees on either side of the object. Standing and observing hand held was shaky so I kneeled down behind an Adirondack chair to steady the image.
I could now see much more clearly the small cluster of multiple colored lights. My focal setting was not set to infinity. Thinking the different colors could be a refraction of white light in the lenses, I moved and observed stars and they were distinctly a single, steady source of white light compared to the colored lights of the object.
I thought to try and photograph the object with my smart phone but shooting stars at night with the phone is pointless. As I continued to observe the object through the binoculars, the swooping had noticeably slowed and diminished. I also noticed the cluster seemed smaller than when I first started, as if it was moving away but still remained in the same altitude position relative to the trees.
As I had been observing the object for about 10-15 minutes, my knees were sore from kneeling on the stone pavers. I left the object, still visible with naked eye but smaller in the sky and went to bed wondering what the ‘ell I just saw….
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White lights hovering above the tree line. Around midnight, I came out to my front porch. In between the trees I noticed two bright white lights with a band of five to eight smaller lights under it.
The lights hovered above the tree lines without a sound and it was illuminating the dark road (there are no street lamps on the road). It seemed to be getting closer to ground very slowly. Then the motion light detectors went on at my house as well as the neighbor's.
At this point, I went inside. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I’m on may 19th at 10pm I was driving and coming upon a sharp corner on birds eye rd in shelton, ct. this is often a very dark drive (backroads) and along my right side is usually just a dark field. No towers or streetlights in this area, that I have ever seen in day or night.
On this night, however, there was a flashing light, that almost seemed like a strobe light in the sky for about 2 minutes. It wasn’t just a flashing light though, it was EXTREMELY BRIGHT, and lit up the normally blackened area.
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Very bright round ball very high in the daytime sky and very bright. I was pulling into the parking lot where I work. The sun was just about to set far to my right passenger side window.
The sky was still very bright and I saw a round ball very bright silver and gold color high in the sky through my windshield. I have seen many airplanes reflecting off the setting sun and this was nothing like that. This was so extremely bright in the already bright clear blue sky I stopped my car to get a better look before I pulled into a parking spot and it suddenly took off with such speed it was just gone in a second.
I have never seen anything like this in my life. Just amazing. I checked my dash cam but the sky was still so bright it didn't pick up the object that high in the sky, but I certainly saw it with my eyes.
You can email me if you have any questions.
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Four bright lights forming massive circle (from ground view - estimated a couple football field large), rotating in a spherical motion, appeared low, high speeds. Every few seconds, all four objects would traject dead center, and then return to original position. ((NUFORC Note: Probably advertising lights? PD)).
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Green light traveling fast I was driving on Huntington rd towards Rt 8. Looked up to left and saw a bright green light traveling at an extreme rate of speed down towards earth. Lost sight after a few seconds.
Looked to be over stratford when i lost sight.
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circle of light with beam of light shining towards the ground I was cleaning out my car and I saw a reflection on the window. I looked up the road and there was a ring of white light with a big beam of light shining down towards the ground. I kept looking at it and my mother in law starting walking down the stairs to the 2nd floor screen porch and I yelled to her about the UFO.
By the time she was at the window, the light went upwards into the sky and went out of sight. This is a very clear night, with absolutely zero clouds in the sky. It was an amazing view that I will not forget.
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD)).
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3 seperate light hovering 15 degrees above the horizon in Shelton,CT. In three different directions there were star like objects all flashing, red,gree,blue,white lights one at a time over and over again. All were about 15 degrees above the horizon.
These lights did not move around, they hovered in the same position for over 2 hours till i went inside and stopped looking. they were still in the same position when i gave up looking. they were like positioned north,south,& east.
They were not planes. Planes were passing them. Not sure how far away they were.
we have maximum visability tonight, they could be 100 miles away for all i know.but they were clear as day in the sky.
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the object went from left to right in matter of three seconds. Fireball shape-like coming down but then disappearing. the color was white and blue and as it was going it left a blue streak in air.
Shelton, 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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Light | 5 reported sightings | 27.78% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Shelton, 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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December | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Shelton, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Shelton, 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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11/04/20 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
09/24/19 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
10/01/20 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
08/19/19 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
12/31/21 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Shelton, 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 | 9 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 27.78% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Shelton, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Shelton, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2020 | 3 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 5 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2018 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2009 | 2 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Shelton, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2008 |
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