CaseLight2018

Southbury, CT, USA

Bright light sparked across the sky and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-24
Where
Southbury, CT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
41.481, -73.213 · exact
Slug
light-over-southbury-ct-2018-75d86f
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

  • Southbury, CT shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 110 reports came from Connecticut in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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