bristol, CT, USA
I WENT OUTSIDE AT 1 AM TO SEE IF IT WAS CLEAR ENOUGHT TO SET UP MY VIXEN 120MM F/8.3 REFRACTOR TELESCOPE, IT WAS CLOUDY THEN I NOTICED
Report quality: High73/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-05
- Where
- bristol, CT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3hrs
- Geo
- 41.672, -72.949 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-bristol-ct-2021-758371
Part of a wave
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
January 2021 was a busy month for bristol, CT: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 40 reports logged in bristol, CT.
- This case is one of 73 Connecticut reports filed in 2021.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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