CaseFireball2012

Milford, CT, USA

Vertical formation of Glowing orange lights seen over Silver Sands State Park in Milford Ct.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-12
Where
Milford, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.222, -73.056 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-milford-ct-2012-0a2ffc
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Milford, CT in September 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Milford, CT has 53 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 156 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.