Newington, CT, USA
Near the Connecticut Light & Power building in Newington, Connecticut on June 18, 1966, a witness reported a triangular object in the sky, observed for four to five minutes.
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-18
- Where
- Newington, CT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.698, -72.724 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-newington-ct-1966-72e6b1
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Newington, CT.
- This case is one of 3 Connecticut reports filed in 1966.
- Triangle craft made up 4.3% of 1960s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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.