CT Still A Favorite Haunt For UFO Pilots: Latest Sightings

CONNECTICUT — There is no greater testimony to our COVID-19 obsession than the collective shrug society has given to the government's admission that UFOs are real.

The Pentagon admitted UFOs were an actual thing, back in May. For decades the military had spun tales of misdirection and weather balloons, throwing shade on professional ufologists and even some of their own servicemen. Then, former President Donald Trump made pandemic relief funds contingent upon the intelligence community opening its UFO kimono, and the science fiction became science speculation.

You would have thought there would at least have been a new podcast or Netflix series on the topic.

Fortunately, sky watchers in Connecticut have overcome the UFO ennui gripping the rest of the nation and remained vigilant, continuing to upload reports of their extraterrestrial encounters into the National UFO Reporting Center. So far in 2021, there have been 35 UFO sightings in the Nutmeg State, and 10 since May.

One of the hallmarks of UFO flight, and the one that has our Navy pilots most envious, is their apparent ability to turn on a dime. That speed is one thing, but the way they move so fast then turn so abruptly without leaving half their craft shredded behind them has our earthbound aerospace engineers scratching their heads.

A Westport resident observed the phenomenon first hand. On May 2, the sky watcher, with a group of six others, saw what at first appeared to be a plane-like object, yellowish-orange in color, moving in the sky near the second star of the Big Dipper handle at roughly commercial airplane altitude.

"But then, a few seconds later, what caught my eye was that this object performed a sudden - albeit slight - turn in direction (no more than 30 degrees). It wasn't a gradual, arc-like turn but rather a pretty sudden turn on a point in the sky. A couple seconds later, it repeated a similar turn on another point in the sky. 4-5 such turns were made within the span of 15-20 seconds so that after that time the object had completely changed its direction and was now heading upwards in the sky."

A similar yellowish-orange object appeared about five minutes later, moving erratically in a different direction and disappearing after around 45 seconds, according to the entry in the NURC database.

A Southbury woman who identified herself as a former drafter and designer clearly had the kind of eye professional ufologists appreciate in these reports. She did everything short of draw a picture of the UFO that swept across her yard close to 11:30 p.m. on May 25:

"It appears to be lights in a circular or oval shape and looks transparent. The top row of lights are white; the lower rows are bluish with one or two white lights in the lowest row. It looks almost like a projection. You can also see a reflection on the paved driveway below the image. The object was moving quickly and headed directly toward our garage then appears to twist and rise when it gets to the garage as if it’s going to go over it. Other than crickets, I hear no other sound."

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Maybe it's those enormous satellite dishes spitting out high energy protons behind the ESPN building — or maybe the space aliens are just fans of Terran sports — but Bristol gets more than its share of UFO reports. A driver in the area around Bristol a little after midnight on June 3, reported a flash of blue and red lights shine in the sky "falling in a sideways /downward angle" before vanishing.

"In order for it to have flashed blue and red so quickly in my opinion it was a flying saucer which appeared to be rotating therefore that is why it was blue and red ... It appeared to only be one aircraft but it was for sure traveling faster than any aircraft I have ever seen and the fact that it just disappeared is even more suspicious. It didn’t look too far in the sky rather it appeared somewhat close..."

Like the Bristol encounters, most of the UFO sightings in the NURC database, above Connecticut and elsewhere, are brief — the alien craft have places to be, after all. But one sighting recently over Wilton lasted so long it made us wonder if Netflix wasn't filming that new series after all.

For 20 minutes around 10 p.m. on June 27, a resident reported a series of three objects moving northward across the sky. The UFOs were of different altitudes and brightness, and one even "blocked out the stars above it," according to the observer.

"I have seen shooting stars before and what appears to be other lights moving very fast but never something like this," he noted in his post.

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A similar light show played out over Sharon around 1 a.m. on May 19, and lasted even longer, according to another NURC entry. This time, the objects moved "unnaturally quickly... swerving back and forth."

"Another notable thing is that occasionally a light would flash beside the UFO to my left (approximately northwest) - this happened about five times in the course of the hour. It looked like a slight dimmer star, would light up momentarily, and disappear. At first, to me, it looked like a battle (I was raised on Star Wars) but it later seemed to be a part of a propulsion system, as the UFO would accelerate after the lesser star... "

Finally, in Taftville in August, a resident may have been getting just a little bit too close to the Truth which is Out There, so the aliens erased his phone. He reported his experience in the NURC database:

"I saw many unexplainable lights and activity over a span of a couple weeks. This particular video was of 5 lights that appeared round moving slowly and flashing then taking off quickly. I have videos of other interesting movements and flashing from that same time period. My cell phone acted very glitchy for about a week and actually deleted some of my recordings on its own. Also when u sent the videos to friends no images would show on their end but we’re still visible on my phone."

Spooky.