All Reported UFO Sightings in Woodstock, Connecticut

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Late at night my friends and I were laying in the grass looking at the stars and chatting. One of us looked to the treetops to our left. We all described the same sight.

We saw maybe 3 or four lights pulsing and rotating around each other just over the trees in the distance. We watched them for awhile but then lost track of them. It was absolutely quiet and an unreal experience to see.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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((NUFORC Note: Witness reports fireball. No details in this report. PD)).

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Bright, fast low flying object crossed field of view at close range during drive at night This occurred a few years back, I'm not sure of the date but 1997 is my best guess given teh circumstances. My sister and I were driving up a hill by a field with a line of tall trees on either side of the road in a very rural town. There are no street lights, so it gets very dark and clear.

Out of nowhere a bright yellow-white spherical object shot across our field of view, right in front of us, covering the arc of sky we could see between the trees flanking the road (about 20 degrees of sky) this occurred extremely fast (a few seconds at most) but long enough to tell that it was a discrete spherical glowing object traveling horizontally. It appeared similar in size to the moon, but a little brighter (not blinding). There was no trailing tail or "halo" around the object.

I've grown up in this town and seen plenty of fireball meteors (good viewing, no city lights) and this was nothing like them, I knew it the instant I saw it. Given its speed and size, I guess it was going several hundred miles per hour no more than a hundred feet over the trees. I was really impressed by how fast it moved.

that I especially remember. And thinking it simply couldn't be some very large, distant object.it would have to be moving insanely fast to have the same effect, then.

My sister both were shocked, and immediately agreed that we had no idea what could possibly look or behave like what we had just saw. I am a research scientist and have a background that includes astronomy and physics. My sister is a very bright, level headed student.

This event was completely outside her conceptual experience and I was just as shocked as she was. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. The witness has a very strong academic background in an technical field.

We have invited him to try to establish the date more accurately, and to have the other witness submit a report. We believe we know the incident he alludes to, but we would like to have him reconstruct the date independently. PD)) ((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION)) I should correct you on one point, I'm not a PhD, but a graduate student in ((subject deleted)).

However I did take a large number of undergraduate classes in astronomy and physics. As far as further information, I talked with my sister and she didn't have anything to add, and didn't want to submit a report. We're still not sure of the date.

I know that I was picking her up from a school dance, and that I was no longer in high school myself. That limits it to either 1997 or 1998. Plus it was not winter (or summer).

So it was probably fall or spring. I can tell you precisely where the event occurred, if that helps at all. It was traveling northwest, and the object crossed our path moving east/northeast.

I don't have a map handy, but the area we were at was dead in the center of woodstock, CT, right by the intersection of Joy Rd and Rte 169. hope this helps. ((END)).

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Summary: Young couple witness large glowing craft streak across the night sky, as if it were "exiting" the Earth. Craft was followed by a trail of pearlescent light, objected started in NE hor.streaked to about 1/2 way across hor.

Then apparently flew straight out of the earth! Without a trace. It took a total of three quick "oh my gods!" and it was over. Definitely not a comet! On October 15, 1995, my boyfriend and myself were on our way to meet some of our friends.

It was roughly around 10:00-10:15p.m. We realized that we were a bit early to meet them, so we decided to just drive around for a while.

The radio in the car was on, but very quietly. We drove around for about 10 minutes, or so, and then decided to start heading to meet our friends. We were traveling north on Senexet Road in Woodstock, CT.

I was the passenger, my boyfriend was the driver. My eyes were suddenly drawn to a small glowing light, seemingly the size of a street lamp, but much brighter. Almost as quickly as I noticed it, it started heading in a southern direction (towards us).

Its speed was phenomenal, never in all my years (26 to be exact) have I ever seen anything in the sky (day or night) travel at such an incredible speed. The closest that this ball of light came to our location was within about 1/2 mile. Upon reaching that point the object appeared much larger than I had originally thought, it was then that I realized that this was not a plane, helicopter, meteor or comet.

All of which I have witnessed before in the night sky. If one were to get close enough to be able to measure the size of the object my guess would be that they find it to be probably close to a 1/4 of a mile long and about half as wide. Once it reached the closest point that it had come to us, it came to an abrupt stop.

Then, in less than a second, it turned, as if effortlessly, 90 degrees toward the west and continued at the previous rate of speed until about half way across the horizon. It then again stopped abruptly and turned another 90 degrees, this time to the north and as quiclky as if it had never stopped it took off, again this time it appeared as if it left the earth completely! Once the object made its first turn towards the west we noticed that it had an incredibly long, pearlescent colored trail of light traveling behind it. This was perhaps the most striking thing that I remember about the object.

It was the most beautiful yet strangest light we have ever witnessed. The trail of light, judging by the distance and size from our location appeared to be atleast 15 to 20 miles long! And as bright as the daylight! We didn't tell that many people what we had seen, for obvious reasons. When I finally contacted a U.

F.O. investigative firm, they said there was a bright meteor in that area around that time of the month.

I told the guy he was nuts, that I know a meteor when I see one. I said to him,"besides, meteors fall down, not up! And they don't travel at speed in excess of thousands of miles per hour!" He asked how I knew how fast it was going? I told him that in order for that object to travel from one end of the horizon to the middle of the horizon and then out of the atmosphere in less than 3 "oh, my gods!" it had to be traveling faster than anything humans have thus far invented. For a plane to travel the distance that this object traveled in less than 5 seconds, it would take about 20 to 25 minutes! When the object made its first turn and we saw the trail of light for the first time, I had the most incredible tingling sensation come over my body and my eyes started to water and my muscles all felt tense, my boyfriend experienced similar sensations.

We are both in our mid-twenties have two children, good jobs and absolutely no reason to make anything like this up. Feel free to post this event, I am no longer worried that people will think I'm crazy. After all, maybe I am crazy, but I'm definitely not STUPID! I know what I saw was without a doubt a U.

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