Why Has There Been An Increase In UFO Sightings In CT?

CONNECTICUT — Whether it's all that supermoon activity, or ET just getting frisky, the number of Connecticut UFO reports has been trending upward in 2022. The total is still a fraction of the approximately 8,000 UFO sightings reported each year by the American public.

That doesn't mean we're due for any grand cinematic mothership reveals anytime soon, however.

On Dec. 16, the Pentagon's new "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office" released its first declassified report of UFO activity — re-branded as "unidentified aerial phenomena" — since its formation this summer. None of the "several hundred" new reports included evidence so far of alien life. And not every report entered into the National UFO Reporting Center database will make its way onto the desk of an analyst at the Anomaly Office.

For example, is this a "space craft with aliens visibly seen through openings of the craft," or just another cloudy June day in Stamford? NUFORC techs even tagged this photo from a Norfolk resident, uploaded on July 14, as a "likely balloon."

But nobody's dismissed the lights that appeared above the town later in the year that easily. This "constantly changing shape" appeared about 1,000 feet above the ground, according to the reports. It was spotted twice, on Aug. 29 and Sept. 3, and both times the show carried on for "8-10 hours."

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2022 was a big year for supermoons, meteor showers and other sky watcher catnip. With so many Connecticut eyes focused skyward, it may have been tough sledding for space aliens to slip by overhead unnoticed. A high-end smartphone equipped with night vision at a supermoon watch party on Aug. 10 captured this anomaly, moving at "supersonic speed" over East Lyme.

The rollout of night vision smartphone apps can't be making ET happy, as most of his appearances logged in the NUFORC database are between dusk and dawn. So how bright did these two phenomena have to be to photo-bomb this shot of a boat at anchor in Essex at 1:13 in the afternoon on Aug. 20?

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While the new camera apps are catching aliens like never before, it's nothing compared with what the state's Multiple Anomaly Detection & Automated Recording network puts them through. The MADAR surveillance nodes are triggered by rapid barometric and electromagnetic changes in the atmosphere — the traditional space alien fingerprints. The five Connecticut MADAR sites are maintained at New London, Newington, Norfolk, Wallingford and Manchester.

Just before 6 p.m. on Oct. 9, the Newington MADAR site pinged its keeper, who spied a UAP ducking into a cloud, according to this NUFORC entry:

"At first the only thing that he saw was a few planes flying by, and as he was looking through his binoculars at one the planes, he spotted a small round black object descending from the clouds above the plane and ascending back up. It repeated this maneuver twice as if trying to stay concealed in the clouds."

Of course, not all unidentified phenomena are aerial. An Oxford resident reported a visit from an "entity" whose home base appears to be the woods surrounding his home. The close encounter occurred on Aug. 3 around 10:45 in the morning, according to the NUFORC report:

I own 14 acres of woods and am surrounded by many more. I was driving down my driveway when a bipedal creature about 4 ft tall and about as wide as my thigh (I'm 5'6" 140lbs so not big) ran out of the woods to my left, across my driveway and into the woods/yard of the property on the right. It was about 10 yards away. It looked like a tree on legs with small arms. No visible curves, hips or shoulders. Just straight. It was brown, skinny, no fur or hair, lightning fast and light as a feather. Almost looked like it wasn't even touching the ground. Didn't hear a sound from it running and all the birds and other animals were dead silent. When it ran it didn't prance like most animals or run like a human. Its legs were moving as if you were pedaling a bicycle. I saw the back and a bit of the right side of it. I didn't see the front or a face. I didn't see a tail, ears or any other body parts a normal animal or human would have. About 2 months ago I was outside around 10pm and there were 2 owls hooting back and forth. Then I heard this God awful screeching sound (wasn't a fisher cat or screech owl). I have no idea if that was related or not. I don't do drugs and I was not drinking. I am not on any medication or anything like that. I don't know if it was for sure an alien but I don't know what else it could be. I did not see any craft or anything although I wasn't going to walk thru the woods to look either.

Good call.