Waterbury, CT, USA
There were several small lights moving across the sky while I was at a stop light
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 57s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-01
- Where
- Waterbury, CT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 57 seconds
- Geo
- 41.558, -73.052 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-waterbury-ct-2021-3e887b
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
- Waterbury, CT shows up 42 times across the archive.
- 73 reports came from Connecticut in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.