CaseChanging2018

Branford, CT, USA

Pulsating orb travels across the sky and was recorded.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-06-09
Where
Branford, CT, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
41.280, -72.815 · exact
Slug
changing-over-branford-ct-2018-ec88aa
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Branford, CT has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 110 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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