Greenwich, CT, USA
Chevron shaped formation of orange lights shaped like stunted bowling pins streaked across the sky from N to S directly overhead.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-23
- Where
- Greenwich, CT, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.026, -73.628 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-greenwich-ct-2009-ef60aa
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…
In context
- Greenwich, CT shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 69 reports came from Connecticut in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
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.