CaseDisk1958
Derby (New Haven), CT, USA
Occurred during early evening hours. LARGE UFO (witnessed by many in neighborhood) hovered over open field at end of housing project.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-08-01
- Where
- Derby (New Haven), CT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 - 15 min.
- Geo
- 41.321, -73.089 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-derby-new-haven-ct-1958-f367d9
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Derby (New Haven), CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 1 sightings in 1958.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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