Manchester, CT, USA
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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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-03
- Where
- Manchester, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10-15 MIN
- Geo
- 41.776, -72.521 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-manchester-ct-2004-709078
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
- Manchester, CT shows up 58 times across the archive.
- 43 reports came from Connecticut in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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