CaseDisk2011

Groton, CT, USA

Small shiny object seen in sky while driving on clear day, looked back for a 3rd time and it was gone.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-10
Where
Groton, CT, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
Less than 5 seconds
Geo
41.350, -72.078 · exact
Slug
disk-over-groton-ct-2011-34314a
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

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in Groton, CT.
  • This case is one of 80 Connecticut reports filed in 2011.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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