East Woodstock, CT, USA
My brother and i were going down a road with my mother driving the car, when we happened to slow down to go around a sharp curve. my br
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-23
- Where
- East Woodstock, CT, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 seconds or less
- Geo
- 41.984, -71.977 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-east-woodstock-ct-1997-e843fb
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- East Woodstock, CT shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Connecticut in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 3.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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