Waterbury, CT, USA
At about 9 pm, we observed a red-orange fireball moving slowly across the sky.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-25
- Where
- Waterbury, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 41.558, -73.052 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-waterbury-ct-2011-9f7ae0
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
- Waterbury, CT has 42 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 80 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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