CaseCone2009

Southbury, CT, USA

Cone shaped bright white light - gradually disappeared / resembled a flashlight pointing down.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Southbury, CT, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.481, -73.213 · exact
Slug
cone-over-southbury-ct-2009-fe15bc
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

  • Southbury, CT has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 69 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Report

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