Groton, CT, USA
On the night in question the skies were clear, also two of the wittnesses had an experiences in the past with a UFO.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-15
- Where
- Groton, CT, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.350, -72.078 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-groton-ct-2009-9abc86
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 14 reports logged in Groton, CT.
- This case is one of 69 Connecticut reports filed in 2009.
- Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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