CaseCircle2018

Darien, CT, USA

Orb hovering and fast zig zags over Long Island Sound with bounce and chirp noise. ((MUFON report))

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-14
Where
Darien, CT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
40 minutes +
Geo
41.079, -73.469 · exact
Slug
circle-over-darien-ct-2018-bc0bd3
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…

In context

  • Darien, CT has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 110 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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