CaseFireball2014
East Haven, CT, USA
Huge fireball came straight down from nowhere.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-27
- Where
- East Haven, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 41.276, -72.868 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-east-haven-ct-2014-76650b
Wave
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
- East Haven, CT shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 97 reports came from Connecticut in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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