Hartford, CT, USA
Driving down 84 West towards Flatbush Ave exit. I spotted 3 floating orbs in almost a triangular formation. They were too high to be dr
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-04-29
- Where
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.764, -72.685 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hartford-ct-2018-5ebce6
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
- Hartford, CT shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 110 reports came from Connecticut in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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