As reported

Circle over Plainfield, CT

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Huge craft with red lights over tree tops circling area 3 times

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 2012-09-21 → 2012-10-08

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September 19, 2021 · 9:41 AM · TEARDROP

Plainfield, CT

My boyfriend and I hiking the Quinebaug Trail in Plainfield Connecticut and I took a picture of the sun rays coming through the trees on the trail on September 19th,9:41am at latitude, longitude location 41.666, -71.861. When I looked at the picture the next day I could see a funny shaped (teardrop?) purple lighting in the center of the rays and it looked like an alien head inside the shape.

September 19, 2021 · 9:41 AM · TEARDROP

Plainfield, CT

This is not a joke or a hoax. I did nothing to this picture besides making it look clearer. We have examined the photo, and the purple patch of light looks to us to be possibly a lens flare. We do not believe it is an alien spacecraft. PD

April 23, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION

Plainfield, CT

Having a bonfire, my friend first witnessed a bright flash of light in the sky, followed by what he could best describe as seeing a hole open up behind it. His dog barked at it, possibly reacting to my friends unease. I did not witness this, but about 10-20 minutes later four of us saw what at first looked like 4-5 planes flying very high in formation. When we got to a better vantage point we counted as many as 14 white single point strobe lights, in a V formation. No noise that we could hear, and they were either very high or in space. I felt they were moving extremely fast, given their distance from us. The center two lights appeared to cross each other's paths while they were moving. They were in our north eastern sky, appearing to be travelling south easterly. They disappeared into the distance and we went back to our fire. About 15-20 minutes after this, we saw the same, or a second formation come over again, travelling in the same direction. This time all the lights stayed fixed in their positions but were in the same shape and moving at the same rate of speed. We identified several planes all at different altitudes, arrivals and departures from the major airports and several cross Atlantic flights that all looked regular. There was a fair amount of normal air traffic, and someone else must have seen this.

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