Bristol, CT, USA
Strange light formation appeared to be surveying residential area
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 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
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.672, -72.949 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-bristol-ct-2021-eadbed
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
4 reports came out of Bristol, CT in January 2021 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Bristol, CT has 40 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 73 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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