UFOMYST
CaseSphere2018

Stratford, CT, USA

Reddish ball of steady light passing overhead.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-03
Where
Stratford, CT, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
41.185, -73.133 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-stratford-ct-2018-86d27e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Stratford, CT.
  • This case is one of 110 Connecticut reports filed in 2018.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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