CaseDiamond2016

Waterbury, CT, USA

Big bright point of light much much bigger than any other star in the sky. Hovered slowly in location going NW. ((anonymous report))

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 (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-24
Where
Waterbury, CT, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
1 hour pending
Geo
41.558, -73.052 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-waterbury-ct-2016-d4e32a
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

  • One of 42 documented reports from Waterbury, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 75 sightings in 2016.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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