UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Manchester, CT, USA

Glowing orange orb moving across the sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-05
Where
Manchester, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2
Geo
41.776, -72.521 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-manchester-ct-2020-b41cf9
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Manchester, CT logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2020.

In context

  • One of 58 documented reports from Manchester, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Connecticut logged 130 sightings in 2020.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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