Hartford, CT, USA
Driving on I-84 East, just entering Hartford, CT, witnessed through the windshield, a bright, white, almond- shaped object with a black
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-26
- Where
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.764, -72.685 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-hartford-ct-2017-5cde15
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
- This is one of 32 reports logged in Hartford, CT.
- This case is one of 84 Connecticut reports filed in 2017.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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