New Britain, CT, USA
Floating star and cigar shaped crafts? Helicopter-like noise but no helicopter.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-10
- Where
- New Britain, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.661, -72.780 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-new-britain-ct-2012-774d12
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
- This is one of 23 reports logged in New Britain, CT.
- This case is one of 156 Connecticut reports filed in 2012.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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