CaseTeardrop1996
Newtown, CT, USA
I was walking in my basement and I looked outside. About 300 yards away hovering right over the trees in my back yard was a strange sha
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-10
- Where
- Newtown, CT, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.414, -73.303 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-newtown-ct-1996-e3e770
In context
- Newtown, CT has 16 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 13 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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