CaseFireball2014

Southington, CT, USA

(1)white-ish pink/(2)red-ish orange massive fireballs hovering over Southington, Ct. Then darted across sky at a abnormal speed.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-29
Where
Southington, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1st. sighting @ approx.
Geo
41.596, -72.878 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-southington-ct-2014-e7064b
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…

In context

  • Southington, CT shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 97 reports came from Connecticut in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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