Newtown, CT, USA
light blue blinking light above highway, turns into bigger object as i get off highway 84 east exit 11
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-03
- Where
- Newtown, CT, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.414, -73.303 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-newtown-ct-2007-a3d77f
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Newtown, CT reports filed in January 2007.
In context
- Newtown, CT shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Connecticut in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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