Cromwell, CT, USA
Nine objects, fireball when viewed by the eye, cylinderical when viewed through a camera, flew in a straight line
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-13
- Where
- Cromwell, CT, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 41.595, -72.645 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-cromwell-ct-2012-93ce7a
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
- Cromwell, CT shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 156 reports came from Connecticut in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
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.