CaseTeardrop1996
Newtown, CT, USA
Strange craft appeared in sky , then zoomed away
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-15
- Where
- Newtown, CT, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.414, -73.303 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-newtown-ct-1996-d6d79c
In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Newtown, CT.
- This case is one of 13 Connecticut reports filed in 1996.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 1990s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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