CaseFireball1964
East Hartford, CT, USA
A witness north of East Hartford, Connecticut reported a reddish-orange fireball falling from east to west across the northern sky, in a brief sighting lasting about 1.5 seconds, September 1964.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (194 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-09-01
- Where
- East Hartford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.782, -72.612 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-east-hartford-ct-1964-3d6c4a
In context
- This is one of 11 reports logged in East Hartford, CT.
- This case is one of 2 Connecticut reports filed in 1964.
- Fireball craft made up 2.5% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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