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West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 14 UFO sighting reports in West Hartford, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (4 reports, 28.57% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 21.43% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 21.43% of total).
- 2011 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 14.29% of total).
- 05/06/08 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 7.14% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 42.86% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in West Hartford, Connecticut
These West Hartford, 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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((MUFON REPORT)) A SKYWATCH team in Connecticut was conducting routine observations and tracked object with NV system. A SKYWATCH team in Connecticut was conducting routine observations and running equipment tests on older and newer skywatch systems. They were tracking a conspicuous orange twinkling orb at around 22:00 hours (10:00 pm local), 02:00 UTC.
The object on the western horizon first caught the attention of one of the group, who quickly alerted the rest of the team. Another team member had the night vision camera running with a tripod-mounted 20" flat screen with the NV camera on top. At first the orb was stationary.
Once the target was moving, they had to manually track it on-screen, as it slowly moved from left to right (W-N). As it moved to the right it decreased in altitude. At one point the motion was described as "fell like a leaf".
They watched it until it went below the tree line and out of sight. No noise was ever heard from the object.
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A small orange reddish ball rose from the ground Pass three sets of windows Ascending higher and out of sight.
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4 red lights in a line some distance apart flying towards downtown Hartford. Theses lights were very high in the sky. No strobes but a pulsating red light.
No sound.
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At dusk noticed bright object in the lower western sky before full moon rose in the east. It was brighter than a star and seem illuminated. Then 2 other similar objects /lights were seen at a distance to the south which formed a big triangle--way bigger than any constellation.
Very broad in the sky. The third and highest one was almost directly overhead. These three were observed for a few hours and did not really move, but seems to stay in place.
However, when you focused really sharply with your eyes you could see some sort of diamond shaped object move and twitch erratically in a very limited area. I was standing still and kept my eyes focused and watched them move and twitch many times. About and hour after seeing the initial light several 12+ lighted "craft" at close range were seen by myself and 3 others flying over head east to west and near the full moon.
These had flashing red and white triangular lights. Some were low to the ground, o! thers flew over a field and over my house from behind the trees. A fourth light and others were seen hovering in the sky almost as if to form a line or pattern.
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Bright strobing light that has slight color change and has appeared on three different occasions. In early morning. It seems to have a boomerang shape and moves smoothly and quickly back and forth and then swoops up or down at a 45 degree angle but in the same north east sky.
Tonight a second object appeared and streaking lights were seen around in the sky. Seems to appear out of no where and disappear by quickly fading.
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I saw a light that looked like a star that was standing still then it moved fast and disappeared. I was with a co- worker in a parking lot after work. While we were talking I was staring at the sky like I usually like to do.
There was a light that looked like a star but it was bigger and brighter than the other stars. I didn't think anything of it, it just looked like a star. Then all of a sudden it moved really fast.
I grabbed my co-workers shoulder and pointed it out to her. A few seconds later it disappeared. It did not look like anything we ever saw before.
We discussed for a lengthy period of time what it could have been, and could not find any answers, I concluded that it must have been a ufo and she agreed that we had both seen something we could not explain. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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bomerrand - plusing and glowing red - transparent and quick 90 degree turns I was walking our dog and was in a park across the street when I looked up and saw a red glowing light. I didn't think much but I thought it kind of low. As it continued to move across the sky to the northwest it slowed and then stopped - no noise - no white flashing lights - but then I could see that there were boomerang shape and it starts to disappear but it never totally disappears but I can see through it.
It stops and immediately takes a 90-degree turn and speeds up southeast. After 15 or 20 seconds, it starts to go back to its northwest course. It was surreal! This was not a plane or helicopter.
It disappeared but not slow; twice as fast as any of the planes in the sky.
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Two low flying saucer shapped objects spotted at A.C Pertersons In west hartford When walking away from A.C Petersons on Park Road I spotted two opjects doing low and impossible moves that an airplane could do.
I watched the craft which were very close to view as they dissapeared together in to the blue sky. Observers - Me and my sister There were also air craft (about 2) in the area. (sky) When comparing them to the ufo, they looked to big to be an airplane.
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ONE BIG CENTER LIGHT TWO SMALL LIGHTS TO THE RIGHT AND ONE SMALL LIGHT TO THE LEFT AT TIMES THE BIG CENTER LIGHT APPEARED TO HAVE RED LIGHT ALSO. IT MOVED BACK AND FORTH AND UP AND DOWN WATCHING WITH THE NAKED EYE, YOU COULD ONLY SEE THE THREE SMALL LIGHTS WITH A TELESCOPE NOT THE NAKED EYE. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Triangular shape - intense lights - silent and vanished in speed of light I was traveling on I-84 West, coming around the West Hartford curves. There was an intense bright light, low on the horizon. I wondered why an aircraft would be so low as the airport is too far away.
As I approached, the light did not move. The light was so intense and bright that I cannot find words to accurately describe it. I kick myself to this day for not stopping - I was in such shock that I kept driving.
As I got closer, the object was above the Troutbrook Exit. It had to be only 200 feet in the air above me. It made no sound.
It was silver, triangular shape. It had a red light on the tip and red and white lights on the bottom. It had an elongated rectangular door.
As I got underneath, I was able to see that the underside was concave. After I passed it, I could no longer see it behind me. It vanished - it was completely silent.
In early December, 2005 I saw the same intense light above my house as I came down my street. (appx. 5 miles from original sighting) I thought to myself, as soon as I get past these trees I'm going to stop this time and really look at it.
Within a half of a second I was on the otherside of the trees and the light was gone - no where to be seen anywhere in the clear sky. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. Source of the report describes self as an "investigator.
" We do not know if the party implies that she is a UFO investigator. PD)).
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2 Trangular Craft Seen I was driving south on Trout Brook Drive in West Hartford CT around 10 PM on 1/7/2004 and I saw two very bright lights in the sky, hovering and moving slowly about 300 feet above the ground. As an avid sky watcher, I am familiar with all of the planets and constellations and I know I did not mistake these objects for "Venus" or anything. The moon was full, high in the sky and the sky was crystal clear.
I thought at first that they might be helicopters, but they were moving in a way that I have never seen a helicopter move.hovering slowly in a sort of circular motion One of the objects started moving away and I lost sight of it, so I focused on the other. I had to turn my car around and follow it and it turned from one bright object into a triangular shaped form with three white lights on each corner of the triangle and a few blinking red lights on it.
I pulled my car over to the side of the road, as did a bunch of other people to try to get a better look. I rolled my window down to see if I could hear anything, but it was completely silent. If it was a plane or helicopter, it was close enough where I would have definitely heard something.
At this point it was much lower, probably 75-100 feet off the ground. It hovered and moved slowly and I continued to watch it for another couple minutes until it disappeared behind the tree line and I lost sight of it. Because of the lighting on the ground, I had a bit of a difficult time trying to decipher the dimensions, but I would have to guess that it was about 20 to 25 feet in length and about 10 feet in height.
It looked like it was black, but being dark, I'm not completely sure.
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Bright light trail followed by bright explsion traced back to Aircraft. Left me preface this report with the realization that this may simply be a coincidence. We witnessed a bright light trail which terminated into a bright explosion and when we followed the light trail back to it's origin there was an aircraft traveling from what appeared to be the exact same position in the sky.
It may simply be a meteorite at a higher altitude and further off in the horizon followed by an airplane in a busy flight corridor closer in perspective but I rather report it than not. ((NUFORC Note: The witness indicates a date in the year 2003. We presume he meant 2002, and we have amended the date accordingly.
Witness elects to remain anonymous, but we believe he is the same gentleman who telephoned NUFORC. He sounded serious minded and credible. We suspect that he may have been witness to the terminal burst of a meteor.
PD)).
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small gray sphere rising up then shoot straight over my house hi, on saturday june 2nd.at approximately 3pm est, i witnessed a gray spherical ball rise up in the sky.stay stationary for about 10 seconds.
then proceed to fly over my house.i lost track of it as it went over my house, but believe it was headed east from west hartford connecticut towards hartford connecticut.sorry i wish i could give you more information but that is all i saw.
((name and e-mail address deleted)).
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Passenger in car noticed "haze" that appeared to be divided into 3 "sections" w/ bright light in center. Changed shape, became disc.
West Hartford, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
West Hartford, 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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March | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
West Hartford, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
West Hartford, 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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05/06/08 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
10/07/11 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
03/03/11 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
06/09/13 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
07/18/13 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
West Hartford, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in West Hartford, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2019 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2018 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2013 | 2 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2011 | 2 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2004 | 2 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2004 |
2002 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2002 |
2001 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2001 |
1995 | 1 UFO Reports | West Hartford, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1995 |
All Connecticut Cities with UFO Sightings
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