Fireball over New Haven, CT
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The report, as filed
comet in sky?
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2003-12-22 → 2004-01-08
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September 16, 2023 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
New Haven, CT
A nice night, my husband (former Air Force) and I were on our deck enjoying the night. He looked up and said "Look! A shooting star!" I caught it flying diagonally downwards from the east (about a 30 degree trajectory) and it just stopped. The "tail" of what we first thought was a shooting star dissipated very quickly before it stopped in mid-air. Just a small dot of light. Then three steady, round red lights poof! went on. It just hung out there, perfectly still, in mid air for about a minute. Then the lights turned green for a few seconds. The lights went white and it sped off west. We lost sight of it behind the trees. There was no sound, no chem trails, no light trail. No craft in the sky. We unfortunately did not get a picture. We weren't quick enough. But I can draw a diagram to figure the distance and size.
July 23, 2023 · 10:45 AM · RECTANGLE
New Haven, CT
At approximately 10:45AM I observed an object in the sky from my kitchen window in my 3rd floor apartment in the Edgewood neighborhood of New Haven, CT. The object caught my eye because it occasionally shimmered very brightly. It appeared very small because of how seemingly high in the sky it was (above where I would expect to see an airplane). It moved slowly in a straight line, much like when you see a satellite at night. I watched from the windows and lost site of it several times, it seemed to disappear into the blue of the sky. Then it would come back along the same trajectory that it had been traveling. It appeared to be a rectangular shape, in an upright position. However when it shimmered it was so bright the shape could no longer be understood. The shimmering did not seem to have a consistent pattern. It would occasionally shimmer at seemingly random intervals. Today's weather was warm with a bright blue sky, not a cloud in sight. This made the shimmering all the more confusing as it did not seem to make sense as reflection from the sun. However, I do wonder how the objects extremely high altitude would affect my eyes interpretation of reflections. It continued moving at a consistent speed, along a straight trajectory until I could no longer see it through the windows.
August 20, 2022 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
New Haven, CT
I was driving home from work on 8/21/22. On I-91 North in New Haven, CT. I noticed a large object in the sky with bright lights, moving too slow to be a plane. The UFO then seemed to hover to the right of the highway as I drove by it.
November 5, 2020 · 6:27 PM · UNKNOWN
New Haven, CT
While unloading groceries from my trunk I looked up and noticed that something was cutting through the clouds at a rather fast pace. The object was completely silent and appeared to be moving at a speed greater than what a traditional aircraft would. I was unable to see the craft but the clouds were being cut, forming a boomerang shape at the front of where the craft had to be. Once the craft cut through, it left a clear gap where it had gone through. The craft did not have lights consistent with a traditional aircraft - no flashing lights or bright lights whatsoever but it did assist to have a faint red tint as it cut through the clouds; certainly not bright enough to be from a plane. Also, unlike a plane, the craft was no longer visible after cutting through the clouds. I would have expected to see it once it moved out of the clouds and into the clear sky but I didn't.
August 1, 2020 · 10:47 PM · LIGHT
New Haven, CT
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May 27, 2020 · 8:28 PM · RECTANGLE
New Haven, CT
I was outside with my sister and her now husband. We were admiring the sky since it was really beautiful that night. I took pictures with my phone. The moon is each photo. When I looked at the photos later, I saw 6 green circular lights in a rectangle shape high in the sky but very clear that moved position throughout the photos though the phone was not moved much (look at moon for reference). I took 6 photos over a minute and within each one these lights move. In some, the lights are static; in others, it is moving rapidly as the lights are blurry.