‘Clearly Not Something Normal’: New Report Shows CT A UFO ‘Hotspot’

However, a new analysis of the sightings suggests that it’s not the bulk number of reports filed, but the number of people who saw the same thing at the same location, that gives gravitas to reports of gravity-defying craft.

«This gives more credibility to these sightings and reduces the likelihood that these were hoaxes, hallucinations, or a mischaracterization,» according to NUFORC.

Using those criteria, and data compiled from around 120,000 reports in approximately 27,000 unique locations, Connecticut and the U.S. Northeast are practically the crossroads of this space quadrant.

NUFORC analysts have upped their game since the last time Patch logged in. The agency’s fancy new interactive sightings map of the globe show what you might expect: most sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena are reported in the planet’s more industrial areas. Obviously, skywatchers whose circumstances find them walking three miles to fill their water buckets at the village well aren’t popping open a smartphone to post a report every time they see a new blip in the sky.

The authorities may not be logging every sighting, but there’s no question more sightings are being logged. The Pentagon launched its own online reporting tool in November.

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Space aliens may be renowned for their grasp of advanced technology, but their Terran fans are catching up, little by little. We counted many, many more videos among the media submissions posted along with the reports in the latter half of the Connecticut 2013 database. Here are a few of the stand-outs:

Five people watched as three triangle-shaped craft floated into the skies above Hartford on Thanksgiving, around 7:10 p.m. Describing the fly-by as «clearly not something normal» and the «experience of a lifetime,» one of the group captured the air show on video and uploaded it to NUFORC. (Warning: Language not safe for work, on earth or any planet we know of.)

Shortly after 8 a.m. Halloween morning, four Wethersfield residents waiting for a school bus to arrive reported a cigar-shaped object that «had no white streaks, or flashing lights the way a jet does. It appeared to be moving very fast then it slowed down and then it moved fast again.» The NUFORC analysts tapped it as «Aircraft – Probable,» but you can judge for yourself here.

It may be annoying when your driveway’s Ring camera goes off over a bobcat or raccoon, but you’ll cut some slack if it’s tripped by a UFO. That was the conclusion reached by an Orange homeowner whose home security system captured three lights scooping in sync above his driveway at 10:41 p.m. on Oct. 4. They seem a bit small to be spacecraft, but then… what are they?

More Spacemen: UFOs Over Connecticut: Town-By-Town Sightings

Two skywatchers in New Haven — one ex-Air Force — were baffled on Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. by three aerial lights they first said they mistook for shooting stars.

Physics-defying interstellar hyperdrive, or just dodgy camerawork? It’s tough to make that call from this video of a chevron-shaped anomaly recorded at 7:38 p.m. over Enfield on Oct. 1.

They described it to NUFORC: «It just hung out there, perfectly still, in mid air for about a minute. Then the lights turned green for a few seconds. The lights went white and it sped off west. We lost sight of it behind the trees. There was no sound, no chem trails, no light trail.» The whole dance lasted about a minute, according to the report.

Observers in Southbury also thought their flying anomalies were shooting stars at first — until they changed direction, again and again. The lights were «circling each other in a tight circle, then into a larger circle. Then the two lights went off in opposite directions of each other,» according to the report at 8:15 p.m. p.m. Sept. 16.

Two separate Cheshire residents filed reports of a sighting on July 4 at about 11 p.m. One described «a charcoal gray saucer the size of a football field» was just above the tree line. The resident identified twelve lights or windows, blinking in a pattern, corroborated by the second report. The whole episode was about six seconds, tops, before the «craft moved faster than I’ve ever seen anything move» away from the scene.