Middlebury, CT, USA
4 or 6 Scattered Ball lights.. similar to the top of a cell phone tower.. but there were no towers
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-08
- Where
- Middlebury, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 41.528, -73.128 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-middlebury-ct-2004-7d6198
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
- Middlebury, CT shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 43 reports came from Connecticut in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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