UFO sightings in Connecticut
There are 59 civilian UFO sighting reports from Connecticut in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1965 to 2013. The busiest year was 2012, with 12 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (16), disc (13) and sphere (13).
Most reports come from Milford (5), Bridgeport (3) and Greenwich (3), out of 42 places in the state with at least one report.
UFO sightings by city in Connecticut
Places with at least three reports. 37 other places in Connecticut have one or two.
Recent sighting reports from Connecticut
All 59 reports, newest first.
- 19 Oct 2013 · 22:00AnsoniaTriangle· 3 min
3 lights, triangular, orange & white, hovering/turning/flipping.
Show on map - 2 Oct 2013 · 19:50MeridenDisc· 15 s
Bright blue disk with two bright red lights, hovering and moving back and forth in the sky until it disappeared.
Show on map - 26 Oct 2012 · 17:35MysticTriangle· 10 min
Triangular orange lights hovering over Mystic, CT.
Show on map - 26 Oct 2012 · 10:01CheshireOther· 19 s
Small UFO over garden, daylight, 120 feet away, 19 second vid, Cheshire, CT, Oct 2012
Show on map Overflight of two firey orbs.
Show on map- 16 Oct 2012 · 18:20TollandSphere· 1 min
Strange object in the sky following a plane.
Show on map - 13 Oct 2012 · 21:00CromwellCigar· 6 min
Nine objects, fireball when viewed by the eye, cylinderical when viewed through a camera, flew in a straight line
Show on map Orange lights
Show on map9 Orange Circles (Fireballs) seen traveling one group of 5 then 4 moving one at a time in same path
Show on mapApprox 30 lights in formation over Milford ct multiple parachutters at approx 8:30p.
Show on mapCluster of red/orange objects ascending into sky
Show on map- 12 Oct 2012 · 23:15WolcottSphere· 5 min
5 amber orbs floating at a high rate of speed
Show on map - 12 Oct 2012 · 19:10HadlymeOrb· 5 min
Bright ascending light, vanished in a flash
Show on map A Bright light that is a UFO
Show on mapA blue flash in the sky that created a power outage.
Show on map- 25 Oct 2011 · 13:40StratfordOther· 5 min
STREAKING WHITE COMET LIKE OBJECTS ONE GOING DOWN TO EARTH OTHER HEADING ACROSS SKY NORTH AND LEVEL.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2011 · 06:15NewingtonSphere· 4 min
Two large, bright , white lights traveling extremely fast in the same circular motion, opposite each other - loud whooshing sound 500
Show on map - 20 Oct 2011 · 21:30TrumbullOrb· 3 s
Green Fireball Sighted
Show on map Bigger than a plane or any aircraft..and as bright or brighter than the north star...or even the space station…
Show on map- 11 Oct 2011 · 21:00MonroeOther· 5 min
Orange Light Formation Over Monroe, CT 10/11/11--Hangs in Sky then Flys Away.
Show on map - 10 Oct 2011 · 20:00MiddletownOrb· 20 min
Fireball Spinning Orange UFO
Show on map - 10 Oct 2011 · 15:00GrotonDisc· 5 s
Small shiny object seen in sky while driving on clear day, looked back for a 3rd time and it was gone.
Show on map - 10 Oct 2010 · 20:20WindsorOrb· 5 s
Bus sized fireball object over 91 about 3-400 ft up going about 150 mph at a downward 20 degree angle.
Show on map Saw a light in the sky fading in and out over Bridgeport, CT.
Show on map"Star" like objects during clear day light in formation.
Show on map- 20 Oct 2009 · 13:00Falls VillageTriangle· 3 h
Triangular UFO with flashing lights and light beam.
Show on map - 20 Oct 2009 · 12:59Falls VillageCigar· 1 min
ALIENS AT MY HIGH SCHOOL
Show on map - 1 Oct 2009 · 23:00FairfieldOrb· 20 s
2 seperate observations. Fairfield, CT
Show on map - 19 Oct 2008 · 01:00Bridgeport/TrumbullRectangle· 25 s
2 Rectangular/cylindrical lights jump from a white streak and move low over a highway
Show on map - 17 Oct 2008 · 18:01EnfieldSphere· 5 min
Small ufo fleet over Enfield CT.
Show on map I saw 6 glowing orbs lining up in different formations witin a 2 hour period over Long Island Sound.
Show on map- 16 Oct 2007 · 14:25RidgefieldSphere· 15 s
spherical shiny metallic object over Ridgefield skies
Show on map - 14 Oct 2006 · 02:24FairfieldOrb· 4 s
October 14.2006 2:24 Large bluegreen fireball fell acrosss the sky in Fairfield Connecticut
Show on map 2nd Witness: Large bluegreen fireball fell acrosss the sky in Fairfield Connecticut
Show on map- 13 Oct 2004 · 06:20New HavenOther· 9 min
strange light in the AM sky New Haven, CT
Show on map We saw something I can't explain.....
Show on mapWhite triangular craft flying low and slow over Manchester CT.
Show on map- 15 Oct 2002 · 03:00DarienOther· 10 min
first noticed while looking up at the constelation plaedes. it was three points of light traveling from horizon to horizon at a slow ra
Show on map - 2 Oct 2002 · 06:34NorthfordDisc· 23 s
A Glow in the Sky......
Show on map Working at sikorky airport in stratford. mid overcast evening w/ rain about 5500 foot ceiling. Facing South/Southwest about 5 miles awa
Show on map- 23 Oct 2000 · 06:50SouthburyOrb· 3 min
A very clear object that was covered with lights, hovering in the air to create a triangle with two planets, its lower lights blinked.
Show on map - 21 Oct 2000 · 17:00Rocky HillBoomerang· 10 min
5 objects sited in Eastern sky
Show on map - 20 Oct 2000 · 20:30RidgefieldTriangle· 2 min
triangular ufo flew overhead
Show on map - 16 Oct 2000 · 12:22WoodstockOrb· 10 min
((NUFORC Note: Witness reports fireball.))
Show on map - 15 Oct 2000 · 17:00Palm SpringsOrb· 30 s
Golf Course sighting of Bright Light Disc
Show on map - 12 Oct 1999 · 23:00NorwarkOrb· 1 min
I saw a white object shoot across the sky at about 50-100 feet high. Looked like a comet, but was way to close to the ground and was tr
Show on map - 16 Oct 1998 · 20:00MiddletownOther· 15 min
The object was traveling at a very high altitude, at first glance I thought it might be a sattelite, but it made a few stops, then a dr
Show on map - 15 Oct 1995 · 22:15WoodstockOther· 5 s
Young couple witness large glowing craft streak across the night sky, as if it were "exiting" the Earth. Craft was followed by a trail
Show on map - 18 Oct 1989 · 13:00WallingfordDisc· 20 min
The craft was pure white. It made no noise. The sea gulls did not sense it. It was going about 200 mph. It was at about 1000 ft. It tra
Show on map - 15 Oct 1980 · 19:00AvonDisc· 1 min
A huge lit-up craft various colors of lights at tree top level traveling at a very slow speed (10 mph) over our heads .
Show on map ((HOAX??)) had no control on tv. ash tray killd itself. the obkect was one big light.
Show on map- 16 Oct 1977 · 18:00East HavenDisc· 1 min
Weather or NOT a Balloon!!!
Show on map i made me feel it was a living thing. that it was alive
Show on map- 10 Oct 1973 · 19:00NianticDisc· 30 min
Oh, what a night ! Two (2) saucer-shaped, glowing green objects and one (1) brilliantly glowing sphere gliding over the lake.
Show on map - 15 Oct 1971 · 20:30LitchfieldSphere· 6 min
Mothership over Litchfield CT
Show on map - 13 Oct 1971 · 21:00BristolDisc· 10 min
i was just a baby up at fallmount,past central high school,wolcott st..i was told by my family dad,mom and 4 brother that when i was ju
Show on map - 15 Oct 1969 · 00:00SharonDisc· 2 min
NO NOISE, NO AIR MOVEMENT, NO HEAT,LIGHTS UNDERSIDE, HOVERED,
Show on map - 20 Oct 1967 · 18:00Old GreenwichDisc· 30 s
Very OLD sighting of glowing blue object hovering over RR tracks/wires in SW Connecticut. 1967!
Show on map - 10 Oct 1965 · 23:45NorwalkDisc· 20 min
A bright orange color changing to reddish color disk/saucer was observed hovering above power transmission lines.
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.