Enfield, CT, USA
Possible sighting of the Kecksburg UFO
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-12-09
- Where
- Enfield, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.976, -72.592 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-enfield-ct-1965-40608f
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
Local cluster
Enfield, CT logged 4 reports in the single month of December 1965.
In context
- One of 27 documented reports from Enfield, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 9 sightings in 1965.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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