Oxford, CT, USA
This was a lit up object moving slowly, then jumping quickly and hovering above the woods and homes of CT.((NUFORC: Student rept..PD))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-20
- Where
- Oxford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.434, -73.117 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-oxford-ct-2005-316402
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
- Oxford, CT shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 29 reports came from Connecticut in 2005.
- 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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