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Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 15 UFO sighting reports in Southbury, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "other" (3 reports, 20.00% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 26.67% of total).
- 2000 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 13.33% of total).
- 02/19/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 6.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (7 reports, 46.67% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Southbury, Connecticut
These Southbury, 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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12 aircraft being led by one I was driving and noticed a group of flying objects high up in the air. There was one lead aircraft and a group of 12 following it but they were fairly still. I was driving so couldn’t take the best pictures but will supply a few.
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2 Flashing orb/cubes caught circling each other, then going to a wider diameter, then separating and going off in opposite directions At 8:15, I noticed two bright lights in the sky circling each other in a tight circle, then into a larger circle. Then the two lights went off in opposite directions of each other (one SW and one NE). I was able to take a pic of them close together, then the second video shows them going away from each other.
The third 44 sec video is of one of the crafts/lights leaving. When you zoom in, the object is flashing multiple colors and seems to be rotating/tumbling. No sounds came from either of the crafts and no vapor trail or any obvious way of propulsion.
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Transparent round or oval rows of bluish & white lights, moving quickly through our yard casting reflection below. I am in my 50’s, a former drafter/designer, currently an at-home mom. I did not see this anomaly in person.
I was inside my home when our Ring system sounded. A few minutes later, I decided to look at the history on our Ring to see what it had detected. I will email the video upon submitting this report.
It appears to be lights in a circular or oval shape and looks transparent. The top row of lights are white; the lower rows are bluish with one or two white lights in the lowest row. It looks almost like a projection.
You can also see a reflection on the paved driveway below the image. The object was moving quickly and headed directly toward our garage then appears to twist and rise when it gets to the garage as if it’s going to go over it. Other than crickets, I hear no other sound.
It is not definitive to me whether it came through the wooded buffer between us and our neighbor, or down our driveway. It does look more like it came from the wooded area (an approximately 20-25’ strip buffer of mature trees.) The following morning I looked around the yard and found nothing odd.
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Bright light sparked across the sky and disappeared. I was driving in the car with my husband and noticed a very bright light in the sky that was moving very fast with sparks behind it. It made an arch shape, zoomed off and disappeared.
It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. It only lasted a few seconds and by the time my husband looked up it vanished.
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Driving east bound on I-84 in Southbury, noticed odd oval shaped white object traversing the sky, distance unknown. I was heading to work east bound on I-84, I noticed a very white circular/oval shaped object traveling east to west. The object was much whiter than a plane and left no contrail.
The shape of the object was very hard to determine because of its distance and size and just seemed like a white oval shaped object. The size of the object looked like it would be easy to determine it's shape though so the distance is hard to determine. It actually looked like a small circular/oval shaped white cloud moving slightly faster than a commercial airliner across the sky.
It could have been a plane flying at a lower altitude and just seemed more white because of the sun reflecting off it. I see planes flying all the time in the morning though and this one just looked out of place. I eventually lose sight of it and couldn't find it again.
I have no picture or recording of the event because I was on the highway and don't use my phone while driving. I'm just curious if anyone! else reported anything similar considering the path it took.
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Irregularly moving silent light source in night sky. Star gazing at 7:15pm EST 10-18-15, I spotted a white lighted moving object traveling North North West at 75-80 degrees off the horizon, that made no sound. At first I thought it was a slow moving satellite.
41 29 73 14. It did the impossible. Moved in a consistent line a few degrees, one finger at arms length then abruptly stopped totally, and reversed its direction.
Then came back and went varying directions, north, south, east, and west each time reversing its directions. At times it appeared to be hovering. Not real bright but easily visible.
I’ve seen the Space Station several nights but it moved along in a consistent direction and pretty good speed. This was not as bright appeared smaller, and moved more slowly. At one point it was moving with a pattern of repeating printed MMMM’s, forming somewhat of a wave pattern.
Nothing I know of can maneuver in air in this manner with a sharp or reversing turn at the end of each run. Nothing. Could have been an object buffeted by winds but very peculiar.
5-7 minutes duration of observation, then I stopped viewing. Ran for the computer to see what this might be.
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Orange star in sky. Orange light looked almost like a star in the sky. Didn't move for at least two minutes from different angles viewed.
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Southbury CT large black aircraft flying low near Woodbury CT It was the end of summer, still light out around 5:30-6:00pm. My husband was getting ready to cook on the grill, I was inside with the kids. I heard a loud engine like airplane kinda noise.
My husband ( who is very very calm) starts shouting my name got me to come outside. I was aggravated because I was busy and thinking this better be important .first the engine like loud noise, I look up in utter shock.
It all happened so fast. About the width if our house, and as low as the highest tree tops was a freakin black aircraft. I have NEVER see such a thing.
This was no airplane. Some sort of aircraft. Huge.
Right above my house, flying low, and the direction it was heading looked to be downwards. But not a nosedive into the ground. I do believe there were lights.
It was so massive. On my children we really saw this thing. I wanted to call someone but didn't know who to call.
I was speechless. There had to be people other than my husband and I that saw this. I considered asking neighbors but didn't.
I hope someone else saw this. It was surreal.
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Driving down 67 towards New Milford. Just passed Transylvania road. My wife and I saw a fireball like shape in the sky.
It was bright orange and red . It looked like a hot air ballon just not as round it hovered and then moved laterally along the sky. She watched it until we hit the intersection near the cemetery when we returned from the cookhouse it was gone.
Sounds just like the guy in waterburys sighting. Anyone else see it ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Orange light travelling with intent in sky, no fuseage, just light. I saw a round light travel west then slowly turn towards the south/southeast. I was on I84 in CT between exit 14 & 15.
Iwas travelling east with my 4 year old, who also saw it. I saw it against a partly cloudy sky but very bright moonlight. It looked like an orange light, round, the whole time.
But it was not partcularly large, as I had a clear view against the clouds. It had no "body" other than the light (one would see the fuselage that close). I pulled over to get a better view, and watched it disappear over a hill.
I'm 34, an engineer, and always had a logical explanation for everything I've in the sky until this. Now I'm on record. I took video with my phone but it was way too dark.
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Cone shaped bright white light - gradually disappeared / resembled a flashlight pointing down from the sky My husband and I were camping in Southbury, CT. At exactly 7:52pm, I called our son. As the phone was dialing, my husband and I noticed a white oval light with a cone shaped light coming out of it.
It appeared as though a large flashlight was shining down on us. The sky was clear. It was a beautiful night.
We were watching planes in the sky, and we know that this was no plane. It did not move. The light slowly disappeared.
We never saw anything like it. We are not nuts. There was a group of younger college age students next to us.
We heard them talking about it, and we saw them looking up. They were drinking, so they may not report it at all. There were appx.
10 of them over there looking at the light. After it disappeared, there was nothing remaining. There was no aircraft of any kind in that area.
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD)).
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I was getting onto the highway by exit 15 in Southbury CT, when I thought I saw an air-balloon or a blimp in the distance. When I got a little past exit 13 I saw an object to my right over Lake Zoar. It was just above the trees.
It moved in my direction, and was infront of my car. It looked exactly like a rocket ship, except it was not as long and thin. It was on the shorter, wider , with no wings, and no visible engine.
It looked to be made out of metal, and the bottom almost resembled glass. It was "floating" with the top pointed to the left, and changed it's direction into an upright position. It made no noise at all, even though it was so close to the ground.
It almost looked like it was barley in movement. It had 3 objects on the bottom of it, just like a rocket. If anything like this has ever been seen please let me know, because I feel like I am going crazy.
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A very clear object that was covered with lights, hovering in the air to create a triangle with two planets, its lower lights blinked. Curious Light I am writing this document 8 hours after I witnessed a curious light in the sky. It was at 6:50 AM on Monday, October 23, 2000.
Walking down to the bus stop, I noticed a solid, bright light in the east sky. The day before, I read a report stating that most people mistake UFO's for Venus because they do not expect the planet to be so bright. I ruled out that the light was probably Venus.
I saw a second light, lower than Venus and to the right. Dimmer, and smaller, but bright nonetheless, and solid. I looked at the sky with concentration.
Blue, not a cloud in sight for miles, everything perfectly clear. I looked at the moon which appeared to be in the south. It was a crescent moon, and looked light a crooked smile.
This is when I saw the light. A bright, flickering object in the sky off in the distance. It was on the left side, lower than Venus, to create an equilateral triangle.
I stopped and stared at the "UFO";, it clearly wasn't a planet, or an airplane. In fact as I looked at the object, I figured that it was blinking about 4 times a second. The entire object wasn't blinking.
It had other lights, and only a portion of lights, on the bottom half of it, were blinking. I wasn't walking anymore, and noticed that it was moving back and forth slowly and unsteadily. Then came an airplane.
In a relative distance to the UFO. Dark, with those slow blinking lights that anyone can spot and identify. A bird flew by, plainly.
A bird nor an airplane, nor a planet can be this strange object I saw in the sky today, that formed a triangle with 2 (what I believe were) planets. I am very skeptical about this strange light being anything other than a light, or an object in the sky. But that strange, rapidly blinking light is unexplainable.
I have seen strange lights in the sky before, but this is the first time I believe it couldn't be anything else, not a flare, a plane, a planet, the moon, a balloon, or spotlight. It was some sort of craft. This is a real mystery.
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me and a couple of friends were having a party out in an abandoned sand pit one night. We had a bonfire going and everything then suddenly a bright purple rounded object appeared in the sky and hovered in one spot for about 30 seconds. We all hopped into the car me and a couple of friends were having a party out in an abandoned sand pit one night.
We had a bonfire going and everything then suddenly a bright purple rounded object appeared in the sky and hovered in one spot for about 30 seconds. We all hopped into the car scared and shaking we didn't even bother to look back. A few seconds later one of my friends looked up into the sky and it was gone.
We put out the fire and left as fast as we could.
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A large triangular object hovered 30 mins, then accelerated and disappeared over the horizon. After eating dinner at my inlaws, I went outside to have a smoke. Looking across the street I noticed what appeared to be a very low and slow flying 747.
Although I could not make out the body, what I could see were 3 bright red lights. I assumed one on each wing tip, one at the center where the leading edge of the wings would intersect (if they did),and a golden yellow light on the nose. The speed seemed so slow that I wondered how it could remain aloft.
The object traveled left to right (south to north). As it came directly in front of me, it seemed to make a 90 degree bank and stop. I could only see what would be the center light and one wing tip light(now vertical).
The lights also changed color from red to golden yellow. The vertical wing tip light was now strobing. It remained stationary and very stable.
I could only guess as to the distance, possibly 100-150 yards. I watched the lights for roughly 30 minutes, then the objected rolled back 90 degrees to a straight and level orientation. The lights changed back to red.
The object then accelerated, banked left and diappeared over the western horizon. At this point I was certian of what I saw.
Southbury, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Southbury, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Southbury, 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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Monday | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 26.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Southbury, 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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02/19/18 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
11/27/98 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
12/24/18 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
10/23/00 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
05/25/21 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Southbury, 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 7 reported sightings | 46.67% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 5 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Southbury, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Southbury, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 2 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2018 | 2 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2013 | 2 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2000 | 2 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2000 |
1998 | 1 UFO Reports | Southbury, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1998 |
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