Meriden, CT, USA
Black object in clear blue sky with sun glistening off of it.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-01
- Where
- Meriden, CT, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 35
- Geo
- 41.538, -72.807 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-meriden-ct-2020-46a327
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Meriden, CT reports filed in August 2020.
In context
- Meriden, CT shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 130 reports came from Connecticut in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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