Light over Meriden, CT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was 14 years old and lived at Sidehill Rd.I had just finished supper and decided to go up the street to my friends house at the top o
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1979-10-29 → 1979-11-15
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March 30, 2023 · 4:19 PM · CHEVRON
Meriden, CT
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October 16, 2021 · 10:38 PM · SPHERE
Meriden, CT
Using Night vision Binoculars,I was looking for ufos.I observed an object up in the night sky at around 10 or 11 o'clock pm moving from South to North slowly. It looked like a star,it was small.when I flashed my light up in its direction, it stopped moving. If I hadn't been watching it, I would think it’s a star. I flashed the light again and it began moving back South, then turned and went from West to East or my left to my right and started moving in front of me and it went from a small start to a large orb bright white light, seemed brighter that the Sun, like it shimmered.Its at this point I picked up the infrared night vision binoculars again which I had put down to look with my naked eyes, and that's where I started to video. Its shaky because I didn't have time to get a tripod and my adrenaline was pumping. It moved across my vision up in the sky. I watched it move silently, it wasn't space junk or a plane, helicopter, drone, it moved intelligently and was completely silent. I flashed it again with my light and as seen, it got small again and moved back out into space.later it came back and moved right to left up on the sky and was hard to see unless you had the Infrared binocs on. I have been doing this for 3 years and have seen many objects moving up in the sky,but this one was different. It changed direction a few times, went from dim to super bright then dim again, and it was silent, like it was watching or observing me because I had flashed a laser up in their direction. Never at it of course.
August 30, 2020 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Meriden, CT
I was walking my dog and noticing how clear the night sky was. Suddenly a ball of light bounced up from the horizon and stopped. I thought I was seeing things and just kept starring at the light. It stood still, so I brushed it off as a star and kept walking, but kept my eye on it, after 20 seconds, the light started zig zagging, thought maybe it was a drone, suddenly the light stopped moving, turned off, and you can see a green light (almost like electricity) flickering where the light was.. after 20 seconds the light came back and lit up the entire sky, from that moment I could tell that the light was actually in space, because it lit up the space around it as if it was some sort of explosion, allowing you to gauge the distance.. and it was reallly far... then the light when back to it's normal light and continued to zig zag before heading east really fast.
August 1, 2020 · 10:50 AM · CHEVRON
Meriden, CT
This occurred 5 minutes after I saw the Black shiny object in the same part of a clear blue sky. I went back outside to see if I could see any more of the object that I had just saw. I was looking up in the sky and I saw to my left a white chevron shaped object appear. I watched it thinking it was a seagull. But a seagull wouldn't be in the central part of Ct. It wasnt. It was solid and it flew on an upward trajectory then accelerated to a speed greater than any jet I have seen. It flew right up where the Black object had dissappeared, did a loop dloop, and zipped up so fast I looked around to see if any of my neighbors had seen it. It was that crazy fast. Then it was gone.
August 1, 2020 · 10:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Meriden, CT
The object was Black, looked like a flattened accordian. The sun glistened off it as it slowly turned and hovered. I noticed it inside my house as I looked out the big window walking down the stairs. I saw a flash in the sky. I went outside and saw it. I grabbed binoculars and watched it. I tried to film it with my phone but got nothing,it was too far. It eventually went up and was gone. It was not a balloon.
June 4, 2020 · 2:17 AM · CIGAR
Meriden, CT
The craft was clearly seen it appeared to be cigar shaped with a Half Dome on the top, it was flat on the bottom. The length of The Craft appeared to be about the width of Two And A Half full moons. There were no lights emitting from The Craft, the Moonlight was shining off the top and lights from a nearby City we're reflecting off the bottom. The craft was swiftly moving from west to east at a high rate of speed and level flight.