CaseDiamond2010

Middlefield, CT, USA

Colorful object in Western CT sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 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
2010-08-31
Where
Middlefield, CT, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
ongoing
Geo
41.517, -72.712 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-middlefield-ct-2010-2e0682
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

  • Middlefield, CT shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 66 reports came from Connecticut in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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