Milford, CT, USA
The object was turning colors (white, red, green, blue) and It had lightning-ish tails coming from it.. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 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
- 2016-01-03
- Where
- Milford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45+ minutes
- Geo
- 41.222, -73.056 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-milford-ct-2016-ea9942
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
- This is one of 53 reports logged in Milford, CT.
- This case is one of 75 Connecticut reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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