CaseFireball2020

Wolcott, CT, USA

Three fireball like objects were seen above our house before they quickly disappeared we captured them on photo and video.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-29
Where
Wolcott, CT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.602, -72.987 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wolcott-ct-2020-0741aa
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

  • Wolcott, CT has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 130 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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