CaseTeardrop2007

Guilford, CT, USA

Green luminesent object with contrail impacts ocean, lights up Guilford CT sky.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-08-18
Where
Guilford, CT, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
.5 - 1 min
Geo
41.289, -72.682 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-guilford-ct-2007-3278c2
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…

In context

  • Guilford, CT has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 64 reports from Connecticut.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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