State Report
UFO Sightings in Connecticut
3,027 sightings on record from 1949 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
3,027
Share of US total
1.41%
Peak year
2012
300 reports
Top shape
Light
507 reports
Years active
74
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-23 | Hartford | triangle | 2 minutes but was longer | Had no sound. All flew into the same direction |
| 2023-11-19 | Montville | disk | Approximately 45 seconds | Saw a moving red disk on 11/19/23 at 5:17 est. |
| 2023-11-08 | Hartford | orb | 25 minutes | Craft swooped down fast & floated with bright white rotating lights & 2 beams of light darting around & on & off |
| 2023-11-03 | Mansfield | oval | 2 minutes | Very still looked like a shiny weather balloon |
| 2023-11-02 | Guilford | unknown | 5 min | Metallic spinning object twinkling in the sun. Spinning consistently with what looked like lights as well. |
| 2023-10-31 | Wethersfield | cigar | One minute | Saw a fast moving object. |
| 2023-10-13 | Groton | oval | Walked away after about 5 | Saw stationary object in the sky potentially over Groton, Ct (navel base) |
| 2023-10-04 | Orange | light | 9 seconds | Unknown lights at backyard |
| 2023-10-04 | Rye area over I95 | other | Maybe 3 times, def 2 | I saw it, and then a few seconds later it disappeared, and that it reappeared a few seconds later. |
| 2023-10-01 | ENFIELD | chevron | 2mins | We saw it. My husband did say ok my bf. Said he saw 20 of them the week before following each other |
| 2023-09-16 | Southbury | changing | 5 minutes | 2 Flashing orb/cubes caught circling each other, then going to a wider diameter, then separating and going off in... |
| 2023-09-16 | New Haven | light | one minute | Thought it was shooting star, no sound. Stopped/hung in mid-air. 3 red lights, turned green. Lights turned white then... |
| 2023-09-14 | Trumbull | circle | About a minute or more. | Glowing orb which suddenly vanished. |
| 2023-09-12 | New Britain | changing | 5 minutes | Shapeshifting object with lights that can move |
| 2023-08-29 | North Haven | circle | 5 minutes | Craft outside above apartments every night for about 3.5 weeks. Craft dropped down and something started to come out of... |
| 2023-08-18 | Waterbury | triangle | 15 minutes | The objects had a dark center, they were orange, they were in groups of two and three but some were singular in... |
| 2023-08-18 | Middletown | orb | About a second or two | 3 golden glowing orbs in triangular formation flying west, then quickly tilts skyward and disappears. |
| 2023-08-13 | Waterbury | formation | 5 minutes | Almost football shaped black object hovering the sky for awhile then hiding in clouds |
| 2023-08-12 | Groton | changing | Continuing now | Bright light never seen before in sky moving in a side to side direction but not great distance only small amounts |
| 2023-08-11 | Glastonbury | cylinder | 10min | Looked like a falcon 9 cylinder very reflective spinning not really falling moving across sky west to east |