CaseLight2013

New Britain, CT, USA

15-18 Red/Orange orbs moving across the sky that disappeared quickly along with a single white light that lingered for a few minutes.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-26
Where
New Britain, CT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
41.661, -72.780 · exact
Slug
light-over-new-britain-ct-2013-3abe0a
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

  • New Britain, CT has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 141 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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