CaseCross2005
Orange/ Derby, CT, USA
Strange hovering lights over Orange/Derby CT
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-19
- Where
- Orange/ Derby, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 41.278, -73.026 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-orange-derby-ct-2005-28f4aa
Wave
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Orange/ Derby, CT.
- This case is one of 29 Connecticut reports filed in 2005.
- Cross craft made up 0.3% of 2000s reports, vs 0.3% across the whole archive.
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.