New Britain, CT, USA
Objects rotates positions, looked as if they were "shooting" orbs of light at each other, objects closer and further away.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-10
- Where
- New Britain, CT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.661, -72.780 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-new-britain-ct-2016-2f49c5
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
- New Britain, CT has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 75 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.