Burlington, CT, USA
Triangular aircraft flies extremely low, then flies vertically, then flies directly over the observer
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 (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-19
- Where
- Burlington, CT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.769, -72.965 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-burlington-ct-2009-7346b9
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
- Burlington, CT shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 69 reports came from Connecticut in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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