UFOMYST
CaseFireball1965

Enfield, CT, USA

Giant FireBall streams across the evening sky of Enfield Connecticut, was Hartford responsible, was Mark Twain given a final send -off!

Report quality: High73/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 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
2 minutes
Geo
41.976, -72.592 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-enfield-ct-1965-82f1b6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Enfield, CT reports filed in December 1965.

In context

  • Enfield, CT shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Connecticut in 1965.
  • In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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