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CaseLight2012

New Britain, CT, USA

I was driving on Hwy 72. I saw about 20 lights in two rows moving slowly across the sky. I don’t know how long it went on for, I saw

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-08-07
Where
New Britain, CT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.661, -72.780 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-britain-ct-2012-9d5979
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in New Britain, CT.
  • This case is one of 156 Connecticut reports filed in 2012.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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