UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Litchfield, CT, USA

Sparkling green fireball shooting over Litchfield CT. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-08-14
Where
Litchfield, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.747, -73.189 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-litchfield-ct-2009-5ed746
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Litchfield, CT has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 69 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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