Branford, CT, USA
Sparkling ball of light, zoomed away at a speed I have never witnessed before.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-14
- Where
- Branford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.280, -72.815 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-branford-ct-2020-f857f0
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…
In context
- Branford, CT shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 130 reports came from Connecticut in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.