Winsted, CT, USA
Man sees "movement" in E sky, notices 7-9 faint orange lights in "boomerang" formation. Lights move from E to NW sky in 5 sec..
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-04
- Where
- Winsted, CT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 41.921, -73.060 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-winsted-ct-1997-ea2001
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Winsted, CT has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 12 reports from Connecticut.
Report
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