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CaseFireball2017

Stafford Springs, CT, USA

My fiancé and I were driving on the main road in Stafford (rt 190 before the school and fire station, heading toward the center of town

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-25
Where
Stafford Springs, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.954, -72.302 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-stafford-springs-ct-2017-1c0350
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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In context

  • Stafford Springs, CT has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 84 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

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