UFOMYST
CaseCigar2018

Branford, CT, USA

I-95 S, Branford, CT. People pulled over looking up. I looked up & pulled over to take photo. Seemed to be over New Haven. 2 obj..

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-02
Where
Branford, CT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.280, -72.815 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-branford-ct-2018-364dce
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in Branford, CT.
  • This case is one of 110 Connecticut reports filed in 2018.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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