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
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
- 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 daysReport
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