CaseLight1961
West Haven, CT, USA
In the summer of 1961, a witness in West Haven, Connecticut, reported a glowing light on the horizon, remaining visible in the sky for about one hour.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (150 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-07-08
- Where
- West Haven, CT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 41.271, -72.947 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-west-haven-ct-1961-60a2c7
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in West Haven, CT.
- This case is one of 1 Connecticut reports filed in 1961.
- Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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