Niantic, CT, USA
Oh, what a night ! Two (2) saucer-shaped, glowing green objects and one (1) brilliantly glowing sphere gliding over the lake.
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-10
- Where
- Niantic, CT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20-30 MIN
- Geo
- 41.325, -72.193 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-niantic-ct-1973-9ece45
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Niantic, CT has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 3 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.