UFOMYST
CaseDiamond1978

Meriden, CT, USA

amazing diamond shape craft at low altitude seeminly moving too slow to stay aloft

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-22
Where
Meriden, CT, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.538, -72.807 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-meriden-ct-1978-34d70c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 46 documented reports from Meriden, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 4 sightings in 1978.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 0.7% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.4%).

Report

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