Plainville/Bristol, CT, USA
((HOAX??)) I saw a bright light at dusk traveling at a very high speed. Faster tgsn any craft I have ever seen. ((anonymous report)
Report quality: Low25/100
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
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-08-09
- Where
- Plainville/Bristol, CT, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.675, -72.858 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-plainville-bristol-ct-2018-a78d66
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Plainville/Bristol, CT.
- This case is one of 110 Connecticut reports filed in 2018.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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