Madison, CT, USA
Mistaken sighting for two stars in the eastern sky just before sunrise. ((NUFORC Note: Jupiter and Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-08-18
- Where
- Madison, CT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 41.280, -72.598 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-madison-ct-2014-c3184e
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Madison, CT reports filed in August 2014.
In context
- Madison, CT shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 97 reports came from Connecticut in 2014.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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