CaseFireball1976
Newtown, CT, USA
meteor like object about 20 feet from us
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-05-16
- Where
- Newtown, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.414, -73.303 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newtown-ct-1976-797679
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Newtown, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 8 sightings in 1976.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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