CaseUnknown2017

Waterford, CT, USA

I saw an orange orb frozen in place in the sky, until some planes began to head towards it!

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-07
Where
Waterford, CT, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
~15-25 minutes
Geo
41.342, -72.136 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-waterford-ct-2017-35a643
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

  • Waterford, CT shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 84 reports came from Connecticut in 2017.

Report

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