Plantsville, CT, USA
Bright light that was moving slower than a shooting star, faster than plane, turned, left a trail, and then disappeared in space.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-05
- Where
- Plantsville, CT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 41.584, -72.892 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-plantsville-ct-2018-ee531a
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Plantsville, CT.
- This case is one of 110 Connecticut reports filed in 2018.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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