CaseTeardrop2020

Milford, CT, USA

Yellow Orange glowing tear shaped object moving east 500 feet away 500 feet off the ground at approximately 35 knots in a straight dire

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-30
Where
Milford, CT, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.222, -73.056 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-milford-ct-2020-87b50d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 53 documented reports from Milford, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 130 sightings in 2020.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.9%).

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.