CaseDisk1960
Taftville, CT, USA
In 1960, a witness in Taftville, Connecticut, reported a white disk-shaped object hovering over a church steeple in daylight before fading from view within about a minute.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-01
- Where
- Taftville, CT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 41.570, -72.047 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-taftville-ct-1960-1478b6
In context
- Taftville, CT has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 2 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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