Hamden, CT, USA
I WAS ABOUT TO GET GAS AT 3AM WHEN I LOOK UP WHEN I HAD SEEN VERY BRIGHT LIGHTS COMEING DOWN WITH A BRIGHT RED LIGHT IN THE CENTER OF T
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-11
- Where
- Hamden, CT, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 41.396, -72.897 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-hamden-ct-2006-874a55
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
- One of 20 documented reports from Hamden, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 31 sightings in 2006.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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