Hartford, CT, USA
A witness in Hartford, Connecticut reported wedge-shaped, triangular objects flying in formation just above the hood of their car at dusk while driving on the highway, in March 1973.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-03-15
- Where
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- minute
- Geo
- 41.764, -72.685 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hartford-ct-1973-fb8a0b
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Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Hartford, CT has 32 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 3 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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