CaseFireball2013

Torrington, CT, USA

2 fireballs in sky, hovered then vanished.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-27
Where
Torrington, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
41.801, -73.121 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-torrington-ct-2013-e20f57
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Torrington, CT shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 141 reports came from Connecticut in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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