CaseDisk1968
Niantic, CT, USA
A witness in Niantic, Connecticut reported a black disk-shaped object against a twilight sky shortly after sunset in August 1968, during a brief five-second sighting.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-11
- Where
- Niantic, CT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- about 5 secs.
- Geo
- 41.325, -72.193 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-niantic-ct-1968-08ca62
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In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Niantic, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 4 sightings in 1968.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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