UFOMYST
CaseCigar2008

Stafford Springs, CT, USA

a string of four white lights, third one blinking white, appeared about 30 feet above me about 20 feet away from me in front of me

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-08
Where
Stafford Springs, CT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.954, -72.302 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-stafford-springs-ct-2008-46bcff
Wave

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  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Stafford Springs, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 62 sightings in 2008.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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