Hartford, CT, USA
Bright sphere blinding the eye like a mirror flying slow near an aircraft and Jets where called in.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-19
- Where
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.764, -72.685 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-hartford-ct-2015-9111cb
Part of a wave
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
- One of 32 documented reports from Hartford, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 85 sightings in 2015.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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