Winsted, CT, USA
the speed the contrail and the shape were nothing i ever seen before.and no sound
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-04-20
- Where
- Winsted, CT, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.921, -73.060 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-winsted-ct-2007-539bc9
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
- Winsted, CT shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Connecticut in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.