UFO Sightings In Connecticut: Here Are The Latest Reports

CONNECTICUT — When former President Donald Trump signed that other multitrillion dollar coronavirus relief bill back in December, the community of unidentified flying object watchers cheered louder than anyone else. Not only were they going to win some long-awaited financial aid like everyone else, but some even longer-awaited answers.

Buried deep in the 5,500 page door-stop was a provision mandating that the director of national intelligence and secretary of defense release a report to the American people detailing all they know about UFOs.

How did a space alien revelation provision get packed into a virus relief bill? Who knows? It was 2020. But now the clock is ticking: Officials have 180 days from the Dec. 27 signing to deliver the goods, and ufologists are anxiously awaiting the data drop.

In the meantime, we will have to make do with the database of the National UFO Reporting Center. That's where the reports on the possible extraterrestrial jaunts and patrols are classified, categorized and mulled over by amateur and professional ufologists.

Sometimes the sightings can be chalked up to lens flare. One database commenter suggested that was the likely source for the "small, glowing, green, floating object" captured in a photograph taken in Ellington the morning of Jan. 22.

Other times, UFOs are part of military operations that aren't exactly advertised on the homepage of Patch. That could have been the case over Naugatuck on Jan. 6, about a quarter to 6 p.m. when a resident spied a (relatively) unusual-looking UFO, looking like a bright, sightly bluish "ball of light with rope like appendages hanging" from it. The sphere was followed a short time later by an exceptionally large and loud helicopter.

The military may also be responsible for the two triangle-shaped craft that buzzed Town Hall on Main Street in Willimantic around 7 p.m. on Feb. 4. The close encounter lasted only about 40 seconds, according to the report in the NURC database.

Bogeys Over Bristol

There's been something in the air in Bristol these past few months. Five UFO reports have been filed with the NURC from there since the beginning of January.

On Mar. 16, shortly before 7:30 a.m., "a perfect line of lights" was spotted in the sky above the Bristol Home Depot for about 15 seconds. The phenomenon was too big to be one single craft, according to the observer, who described it as "sorta like the S in Morse code."

On Jan. 24 above Bristol, shortly after 7 a.m., there was a report of a falling UFO with "brilliant streaks from all sides," like a spacecraft reentering Earth's atmosphere:

"It was just before full sunrise and was brightly lit up against the lighting of the sun rising to the east over the horizon beyond it. Had substantial size based on the size in the sky compared with the huge satellite dishes of our company in the foreground. No noise was distinguishable during the occurrence. I spotted it and called to fellow officers to look and the three of us all witnessed it."

The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line over the horizon to the east, according to the report.

On Jan. 5 around 1 a.m. a sky watcher setting up their telescope saw 14 lights "travelling in a big figure-eight pattern in the sky like 'follow the leader' but they were in groups of two." The amateur astronomer went back into the house and returned with an Edmund Scientific laser and fired a beam at the bogey, as would you if you saw a train of UFOs and had a laser handy. As you might expect, the laser dispersed the lights. Then the lights reformed around the beam into their original figure-eight, which nobody was expecting. The observer estimated the UFOs were traveling around 500 mph while they formed the pattern, and their dance went on for three hours.

Later on the 5th, around 10 p.m., another light show — or was it an encore? — was seen in the Bristol skies:

"I saw in the sky about 13-15 strange lights in the sky, they were very large and dull in color as though they were high above the clouds. 10-12 of them were white and flying extremely fast in sync with each other making swirly shapes together, these lights would disappear for a bit and reappear every so often. Surrounding these white moving lights were three black stagnant dim lights in almost a triangular shape surround the white lights that consistently stayed present."

The reporter said the flying formation lasted over 2o minutes, zoomed over the whole neighborhood, and was reminiscent of "a very strong light show that a Las Vegas casino would have."

Later around midnight, the morning of Jan. 6, the mysterious flying pattern was spotted by another Bristol resident, who reported that "they were like light blueish / white circles moving in a figure 8 position repeatedly for a few hours."

The January 5 UFOs were also spotted further southwest. In a separate report, a Weston resident said a large, bright white teardrop-shaped object, with a neon green interior, crossed the road low in the night sky around 5:30 p.m. Its movement was swift, "similar to a shooting star, but the object was much bigger,"and traveling low in the sky, according to the Westonite.

In Wolcott that same night, a couple of hours later, a woman and her boyfriend were sitting in her car when she saw a group of three lights circling in the sky, out of the corner of her eye. The show lasted only four seconds, but she said she "knew right away it was a UFO." Have doubts? An acquaintance in Southington said she witnessed the same phenomenon around the same time.

'Warp Speed' Fireballs Around Hartford

Jan. 4 around 6 p.m., a driver spied a "bluish/green fireball with yellowish flames/tail flying east to west at what seemed to be warp speed" while traveling west toward Hartford on Route 2 West. The UFO "simply vanished" near the Connecticut River after less than 10 seconds.

Six more fireballs appeared over Moosup on Mar. 24 around 7:30 p.m., but unlike the East Hartford phenomena, these "moved with intent and intelligence," according to the reporter.

"Two of them moved or floated, the one on the left went from left to right and the other from top to bottom while the rest stayed in one place...This was the most exciting and unbelievable thing I have ever witnessed." The UFO dance continued for about five minutes before it "dissipated," according to the report.

Seen visitors from outer space lately? Or just looking to keep up to date with the latest extraterrestrial shenanigans above Connecticut? Check out the NUARC database online.