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Storrs, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Storrs, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 2009 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 03/31/09 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Storrs, Connecticut
These Storrs, 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:
In Storrs, CT, saw a cigar shaped object flying rapidly after hovering for a brief second on my iPhone footage of the rain clouds. It had just rained and the clouds were gray and full. I decided to take a short video of the cloud formations for a Tik-Tok video.
I filmed the clouds for a few second then went home. I was walking from my class at Uconn. I forgot about the video until the next morning.
When I watched it I noticed a craft flying through my scene so rapidly and when I enlarged it the boxy shape looked like nothing I’d ever seen before. I noticed it hovered for a brief second then sped into the clouds and disappeared. When I slowed down the footage it was still moving very fast but I could clearly see it stopped in mid-air for a fraction of a second then continued.
I showed it to a pilot from Delta that I knew and he said it truly looked like something not from this world so I decided to report it. The shape looked cigar like however when enlarged and pixelated it seemed to have giant rectangular wings, an elongated nose with a dark patch which looked like a pilots window and ! a very short tail that could barely be detected. I did not see it with my naked eye or notice it however when I watched the footage and especially when I slowed it down there was a strange sound that was in the background, almost like a zoom and a whoosh that could e been used on a sound track to indicate fast flight.
There was no sonic boom or anything detected on the ground from the sidewalk. I was in the center of Storrs Center near CVS pharmacy.
Full Report Text:
Disk with spokes of light Circular disk angled with face visible from my perspective, illuminated with glowing pattern of lights spreading like spokes from the center. The lights pulsated red and green with the top section of spokes red and the bottom section green. I was woken up by a sound like a helicopter and thought that’s what I was seeing, but it remained in the same relative place for some time and the lights did not behave like any aircraft I’ve seen before.
It was reminiscent of a drone in some ways but definitely much larger. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Stable, then darting small, bright, red light, suddenly sped away out of view within 1 second. I was star gazing on a clear night around midnight or 1:00am in Storrs, CT, in the cemetery on campus. Lying still on the ground, l was looking up at the various stars, planets, planes, shooting stars, etc.
for roughly 15 minutes. At one point, I noticed 1 small and very distant bright red light slowing moving in a line across the sky. The light itself shone steadily and did not blink.
The movement had caught my eye. After about 3 seconds of steady movement, the light turned in an arc and slowed down. I thought that was strange.
Then, over the course of about 15 more seconds total, it proceeded to halt, dart up/down/left/right with extreme precision and speed. Finally, it halted for half a second before suddenly speeding away as suddenly as it had appeared. It completely disappeared within 1 second.
It had sped so far away so quickly, that I lost sight of it within a perfectly clear night sky. At first, I was dumbfounded by what I had seen. I hadn't even had time to blink during the whole entire time I witnessed it.
It was not a shooting star (which would have been white-yellow in color, and follow a more brief and linear path before disappearing). However, I would describe the speed of its travel similar to how fast a shooting star would move – “blink, and you’ll miss it!” The precision of the halts and turns is what really astounded me. No shooting star, comet, or plane could move with that sort of instantaneous, precise movement, or come to a dead halt that effectively.
It was very eerie, yet very interesting. I immediately texted my best friend to let her know because I was so excited! Needless to say, I got up and went back inside to the safety of my dorm to process what I had seen.
Full Report Text:
UFO over UCONN Last night, (3/31/2009) at approximately 7:50 pm, my 3 friends and I spotted what looked like a glowing ball in the dusk sky. We were at a large hill called horsebarn hill at the University of Connecticut. I was the one who first spotted it when I saw two airplanes in the unobstructed sky and noticed that there was a third object (the glowing ball) which was not behaving like the other two airplanes.
We surveyed the area and noted that there were nearby radio towers and traffic lights that were visible slightly above the tree line, but none of these were at the same height as the object. We observed the object hovering for a brief period (about 5 minutes) and it was pulsating with light. Soon the object disappeared.
We began to scan the sky again and a few seconds later we noticed the object again over the campus, a great distance away from where it was before. We didn’t know how it was possible for it to travel that fast. It hovered there for a while and disappeared.
To me it seemed like it disappeared but I have terrible eyesight and wasn’t wearing any visual aids. My two other friends however could still see it as a small red dot traveling at an immense speed to the other side of the hill where we saw it initially. We then saw it change a series of colors (purple, white, and yellow) and it looked like it was wobbling back and forth in the sky.
We continued to watch the object and it disappeared and reappeared several times, randomly getting brighter until it was the brightest object in the sky and it disappeared again to move to a new location. After about 30 minutes of observing this object, we were not able to locate it again. I did record 4 videos of the object on my cell phone camera and caught one of the object increasing the intensity of light and disappearing, however since it is a camera phone it is not of exceptional quality.
I am certain what we saw was not an airplane or a radio tower or even a street light.
Storrs, 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 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Storrs, 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 |
March | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Storrs, 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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Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Storrs, 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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03/31/09 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
02/15/12 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
01/12/19 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
09/03/20 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Storrs, 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 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Storrs, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Storrs, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Storrs, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Storrs, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Storrs, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Storrs, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2009 |
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