Plainville, CT, USA
Huge fireball with a firey tail shooting across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (56 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
- 2011-01-29
- Where
- Plainville, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.675, -72.858 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-plainville-ct-2011-687540
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
- One of 10 documented reports from Plainville, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 80 sightings in 2011.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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