Plainville, CT, USA
Nov 8 at approx 8:35 pm driving W on Rte. 372 in Plainville, CT, saw 3 bright lights in a row, close together hovering over the rte 72.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-08
- Where
- Plainville, CT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.675, -72.858 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-plainville-ct-2017-6c41a2
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
- Plainville, CT has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 84 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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