Bristol, CT, USA
About 9 P.M. July 3rd, 2011 Bristol CT, Lasted 30-40 Seconds, Heard 3 Loud Bangs, Went Outside And Saw An Orange Circular Unidentifiabl
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-03
- Where
- Bristol, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 35 seconds
- Geo
- 41.672, -72.949 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bristol-ct-2011-c9d91a
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
- This is one of 40 reports logged in Bristol, CT.
- This case is one of 80 Connecticut reports filed in 2011.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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