UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2012

Meriden, CT, USA

Bright flickering star shaped UFO over Meriden,CT ((NUFORC Note: Star or planet?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-01-03
Where
Meriden, CT, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
30 mins
Geo
41.538, -72.807 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-meriden-ct-2012-3729a7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 46 documented reports from Meriden, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 156 sightings in 2012.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Report

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