CaseCircle2009

Glastonbury, CT, USA

I looked east and saw a rather large circular pale blue light in the sky and then it just streaked off with the speed of a fireball

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-29
Where
Glastonbury, CT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2-3 secs
Geo
41.712, -72.608 · exact
Slug
circle-over-glastonbury-ct-2009-304cf0
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

  • One of 10 documented reports from Glastonbury, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 69 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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