New Britain, CT, USA
It appears to be a bright start but it has to many colorful lights around the object and I seen it before so I can identify it .It is a
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-24
- Where
- New Britain, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 0.1.30
- Geo
- 41.661, -72.780 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-new-britain-ct-2021-8b224a
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
- New Britain, CT shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 73 reports came from Connecticut in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
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