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Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 12 UFO sighting reports in Weston, Connecticut to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 25.00% of total).
- February is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 2003 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 16.67% of total).
- 09/23/75 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 8.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (7 reports, 58.33% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Weston, Connecticut
These Weston, 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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Big, bright white with neon green interior teardrop-shaped light crossed the road low in the night sky. My daughter-in-law and I were traveling in a quiet car, west on rte. 57 in the early evening so it was dark and there are no road lights on this route.
A teardrop-shaped bright white light with a neon green colored interior of the drop and a long following tail crossed the road perpendicular to us - so, traveling low in the sky, and close, from north to south. The movement was fast and similar to a shooting star, but the object was much bigger. It crossed our entire field of view and we both saw it at the same time.
My daughter-in-law thought it might be a helicopter or small plane because it was that close but I dismissed both because there was no fire - no orange or yellow at all. After it crossed our view we didn’t see anything else.
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60 white lights over Weston CT 3/26/20 I work In Weston CT and seen 60 lights following each other in formation 3/26/20 and I’m working here again today and seen a bright light fly over Weston CT again same time just one light tho . This must be a area for them to fly over .
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Bright white perfectly round sphere in sky between trees in Weston, photo available 11:38 pm I saw and photographed one perfectly round bright white light in the sky between the trees . It didn’t move. I have never seen this before or since.
It appeared for several minutes without changing or moving.
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Bright yellowish sphere cut across sky extrememly fast at what appeared to by a very low altitude. I only saw the orb for a second before it was out of sight past roofline of house. Similar to a shooting star or extremely low altitude meteorite, or object burning in atmoshphere.
it was not a reflection, it was not an aircraft.
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A single orange light hovers 20 ft above treeline before exiting view to the South FOR A MULTIMEDIA VERSION OF THIS REPORT, VISIT chrisburnswriting.wordpress.com On the night of Oct.
8, three friends and I traveled to the Saugatuck Reservoir in Redding, Conn. to watch the Draconid Meteor shower. While we didn’t see any meteors, what we saw will probably stick with us for a long time.
At about 10:15 that night, one of us noticed a very bright, very low-flying orange “thing” just above the tree line of the eastern shore of the reservoir (see above). Beyond the reservoir to the east is a state park called “Devil’s Den.” It is named as such, according to the Darien Times, because charcoal makers in the hilly, rocky area would say that a hoof-like mark made in a boulder was the footprint of the Devil.
It took about 20 minutes for us to become convinced that this was something that we should take pictures of. Once the camera was up and running, the lights remained hovering for about 10 minutes, according to time stamps taken from the camera that took the pictures below. The orange light hovered above the trees moving in an erratic, “jerky” fashion.
Near the end of its visibility, it began moving purposefully towards the south, where it disappeared beyond a grove of pine trees that blocked our view. ——— This is not the first time these lights have been reported by observers. ——— (For the record, I am a newspaper reporter who works for a chain of newspapers that includes the newspapers that have covered Redding, Easton, and Weston for a long, long time.
No one working at these papers, including the publisher, had ever heard of anything like that which I show below. However, research like this is my job, and I stand behind the information I present to you. But, I cannot guarantee the veracity of the reports listed below.
In my opinion, the chances of this many separate reports of similar incidents in one small part of Connecticut over a vast period of time is more than a coincidence.) As far back as 1966, a Doctor from Darien, Conn. driving past the reservoir noticed lights that seem to match the description of what we had seen.
His report was chronicled by the Spartanburg, SC Herald-Journal. There are also multiple matches for what we saw recorded in the National UFO Reporting Center. Below I partially quote one entry from Feb.
22, 2011: “Last night at 8pm I looked out my living room window and noticed a flashing bright red light low on the horizon a mile or so away over the Devil’s Den area on the Weston/Redding border. It was low in the sky and unusually bright, much brighter than any airplane lights, flashing and drifting very slowly.” And another partial quote from Sept.
28, 2010 in Redding: “I saw a bright light that slowly moved through the sky and seemed to have striations that looked like lightning bolts eminating from it.” And another partial from Weston in Feb. of 2003: “Bright light in sky.
Not an airplane because it didn’t move. Not a star because it was twinkling white, green and red lights. To the left was another star-like light that seemed to blink a few times then stop…blink again a few time then stop, etc.
After 5 mins. or so both lights grew dimmer and more distant until they were gone.” And another from Norwalk in August of 2007: “Blinking Bright Star/object, at lower altitude than normal at stand still/ moving very subtully through the night sky.
The UFO appeared to be a a blinking star or a plan. As I laid down in the bed it was descending in a weird fashion.” ——— Our Location ——— Below are three maps which show our location, our line of site, and the location of the floating object.
The blue lines represent the opening through which we viewed the orange light. We were only able to witness the light’s movement between the island you see to the left of our line of site (respective to the observer) and the tall pine trees which cover the peninsula to our right. You can find the same maps at: https://mapsengine.
google.com/map/edit?mid=zwGJfJDQECZY.k7Uby7nJpcsQ Visibility maps.
Visibility maps. ——— The images ——— That night, I was lucky enough to have my Canon Rebel T3i in the car that brought us to the reservoir. I had taken some 30″ exposure shots before the light appeared.
All of the images taken that night were in RAW, CR2 format, which can be provided to anyone who might assume they have been “photoshopped.” When the light first appeared, we believed we were seeing a plane coming from the east, rising very slowly. However, compared to other planes that very regularly fly over the reservoir at night, it was moving far too slowly, and too erratically.
To give the lights some context, I took a picture of a plane traveling above the reservoir just after the orange lights disappeared. It is pictured below. http://chrisburnswriting.
files.wordpress.com/2013/10/alien-presentation-plane-wp.
jpg?w=660&h=440 An image of a plane captured above the Saugatuck Reservoir after the orange lights disappeared. An image of a plane captured above the Saugatuck Reservoir after the orange lights disappeared. As one can see, the lights recorded when taking a picture of a plane were regular, and tightly delineated.
I was not taking these pictures with a tripod. Any camera shake is negligible, and the lights of the plane are clearly defined. EXIF data and zoom views are included above.
Contrarily, the pictures taken of the odd orange lights were not clear or well-defined. The following picture was taken with the exact same EXIF settings, from the exact same point on the reservoir as the plane lights above. Yet, it depicts something much less defined, with varying colors.
It almost looks like a hieroglyph. http://chrisburnswriting.files.
wordpress.com/2013/10/alien-1-presentation.jpg?w=660&h=440 (An image taken of the orange lights seen on Oct.
8 at the Saugatuck Reservoir.) The next image of the orange lights give a much better perspective of how unbelievably low these lights were hovering above the tree line. The brightness and contrast have been edited to show a clearer look at the tree line.
Also of note are the green lights which seem to be the source of the orange, glowing lights. This image is also taken at about half the shutter-speed as the above two images, and appears to show the eratic nature of the light’s movement across the sky. http://chrisburnswriting.
files.wordpress.com/2013/10/alien-presentation-2.
jpg?w=660&h=989 A third image of the lights again shows the clear difference between the green and orange lights in the sky, though the human eye could only pick up the green. When we saw it without a camera lens, the light appeared to be an orange circle floating across the sky. http://chrisburnswriting.
files.wordpress.com/2013/10/alien-3-presentation.
jpg?w=660&h=440 An image that shows the orange lights in the sky ——— Conclusion ——— I cannot even pretend to guess what on earth I took a picture of that night. Maybe its a lighted kite for all I know. All I can do is give you the information I have seen and found, and let you make your own conclusions.
I’m the furthest thing from a skeptic when it comes to this sort of thing, so I urge you to debunk anything I say as harshly as you can. My fellow observers and I are excited to see what you all may think. Feel free to contact us at [Email removed/cms/tg].
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Three Large Orbs - Flashing Three large red orbs hovering over Georgetown Road.
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Strange light display and manuvers low over Weston/Redding border Last night at 8pm I looked out my living room window and noticed a flashing bright red light low on the horizon a mile or so away over the Devil’s Den area on the Weston/Redding border. It was low in the sky and unusually bright, much brighter than any airplane lights, flashing and drifting very slowly. I took out my binoculars and while looking at it noticed two things.
It was actually several red and white lights flashing together, very bright and had an L.E.D.
quality to the light. The red and white flashing lights were unnaturally pure and bright. There was also a small orange, glowing, perfectly round light much dimmer (the color was similar to a setting sun but much smaller.
Just a dot) that seemed to be pulsing in concert with the much brighter red and white lights below it. It appeared as if the small orange dot was pulsing in communication with the lights below it. This small orange ball was a separate object judging from the distance above and off to the side of the red/white object.
After observing this thru the binoculars for several minutes the red and white lights separated into two distinct objects. One red and one white. These two objects flew around each other doing what seemed to be impossible maneuvering at an extremely high rate of speed over a very small area.
Almost like two huge laser beam points dancing in concert together. The red and white objects were traveling so rapidly in close proximity to each other that they appeared at times as one red and one white streak of light "dancing" together creating pretzel like shapes. The whole time, the orange dot was also observed and kept its relationship to the slow drifting red/white display going on below it.
After observing this for about 5 minutes the objects slowly drifted below the horizon behind the tree tops. I continued to look in the direction with my binoculars for about an hour but saw nothing else out of the ordinary. I will definitely be looking in the same direction at the same time tonight to see if it happens again.
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Rocket-like object streaking across the sky with whitish tail As I was driving east on Cannondale Road, I saw an object travelling which I initially thought was a plane, but then realized it was more like a white light streaking north across the sky. It seemed as if it had white sparks (tail) coming out of the back. It was a very odd looking rocket-like object that I thought might have been a meteor because the trajectory appeared slightly downward.
I quickly lost sight of it due to heavy tree coverage. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Loud helicopter-like noise that intensely vibrated 2 homes. Nothing seen, just heard and felt. Sounded like a helicopter except that it got so loud and close to our house and our neighbor's house that the houses were vibrating intensely and conversation could not be heard for approx.
10 seconds. There were no lights in the sky, just the sound. Local Police had at least 5 calls about the sound.
Total time of occurance was approximately 2 minutes.
Full Report Text:
White/green/red stationery light in sky.2nd light nearby flashing.then faded away.
Bright light in sky. Not an airplane because it didn't move. Not a star because it was twinkling white, green and red lights.
To the left was another star-like light that seemed to blink a few times then stop.blink again a few time then stop, etc. After 5 mins.
or so both lights grew dimmer and more distant until they were gone.
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Dome shaped object in Weston, CT. Spring 1985 We first saw it as we crested a hill. At first, it appeared to be bright lights from a distant house.
As we approached the area by car, it seemed to shift from one side of the sky to the other. The area where we saw it is very thick forest that opens to a large resevoir with a dam. As we crested the hill to the dam, it was hovering over the dam.
The water was high, but not moved by the UFO. It was very large, shaped sort of like a cowboy hat with a very narrow brim, with a large yellowish ball protruding from the bottom. The top was encircled by rotating red and blue lights.
It stayed there for as long as we did. My mom only drove away as I started to get out the car to get a closer look. I was 14 at the time.
It followed us as she very quickly drove along the resevoir. When it began to follow us it seemed to lean onto its side and appeared more cigar like. Sikorsky Airforce Base reported numerous calls the next day.
They said it was a weather balloon. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).
Full Report Text:
BRIGHT LIGHT WATCHING US SLEEP 2:00 AM THEN GONE HIGH RATE OF SPEED WESTON CT PRIVATE HOME MY HUSBAND AND I WERE ASLEEP IT WAS 2:00AM THE NIGHT WAS CLEAR, WARM SUMMER NIGHT.I WAS AWAKEN BY A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT SHINING IN MY BEDROOM WINDOW WHICH WAS OPEN AT THE TIME. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS THE MOON THAN I REALIZED THE OBJECT WHICH WAS TOTALLY ROUND LIKE THE MOON BUT ABOUT 3X'S LARGER THAN THE MOON WOULD BE AND VERY BRIGHT AND CLOSE TO THE EARTH.
IT JUST HUNG IN THE SKY VERY STILL AND QUIET.I WOKE MY HUSBAND AND ASK HIM WHAT IS THAT? HE HAD NO ANSWER THEN ALL AT ONCE IT TOOK OFF AT A VERY HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND WAS GONE.NO NOISE AT ALL.
I ALWAYS HAD THE FEELING IT HAD BEEN WATCHING US SLEEP AND BECAUSE WE WOKE IT LEFT VERY FAST.
Weston, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Weston, 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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February | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Weston, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Weston, 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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09/23/75 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
11/02/10 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
02/22/11 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
10/29/12 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
10/08/13 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Weston, 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 | 7 reported sightings | 58.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Weston, Connecticut
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Weston, Connecticut.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2003 | 2 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 2003 |
1985 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1985 |
1975 | 1 UFO Reports | Weston, Connecticut UFO Sightings in 1975 |
All Connecticut Cities with UFO Sightings
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Connecticut