Norwich, CT, USA
Strangly lit, loose formation of silent auircraft-like objects, with a treetop level meteor appearing during the overflight.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-16
- Where
- Norwich, CT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.524, -72.076 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-norwich-ct-2004-8530d4
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
- Norwich, CT shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 43 reports came from Connecticut in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.