Brooklyn, CT, USA
Flat, round object heading rapidly SE horizontally.I was on my way home from work on roads I've travelled at this time of day for t
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-08
- Where
- Brooklyn, CT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 41.788, -71.950 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-brooklyn-ct-1997-71ac4f
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Brooklyn, CT has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 12 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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