Sphere over Westport, CT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There were bright orange lights on the object that turned off within 10 minutes.
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 2013-08-21 → 2013-09-07
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May 2, 2021 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Westport, CT
On Sunday, May 2 at around 8:45 PM I was outside on the deck of my significant other's house in Westport, CT with a group of 6 people when I casually looked up to the sky at the Big Dipper. I saw what, at first, appeared to be a star / plane-like object (yellowish-orange in color) moving fairly normally downwards in the sky near the 2nd 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 on the other side of the same star of the Dipper...and then it (g! radually) disappeared. From a physics standpoint, it was as if something had entered the atmosphere, took this unusual path, and then exited the atmosphere. I am 43 years old and I had never seen anything like this before. It became obvious that it was neither a plane nor a meteor. I thought that it could, perhaps, be some kind of satellite capable of making such sudden turns...but I later discovered that such motion was impossible for satellites as well (unless something catastrophic was happening with the satellite). Just when I thought I'd seen a one-time unusual event...about 5 minutes later I see a similar yellowish-orange object appear just outside the the far side of the Big Dipper pan and slowly making its way under the pan and towards the handle. This time, I quickly called attention to the object to both my girlfriend and another guest at the gathering (he was about 60 years old) and they both confirmed that the strange object was neither a plane nor a meteo! r. The object continued on its trajectory across that part of! the sky making a gradual arc (straighter than the first) in that part of the sky until it had passed the Big Dipper handle. It then gradually disappeared afterwards. This object's somewhat erratic path lasted 30-45 seconds.
December 15, 2020 · 5:56 PM · CIRCLE
Westport, CT
I saw a blue circular light in the distance outside my window. Larger than a star. It caught my eye, then moved vertically for about 7 seconds and disappeared.
July 24, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Westport, CT
My wife and I were out in the back-yard laying on lounge chairs, looking up at a passing plane and discussing what causes contrails, when she pointed out another object in the sky. It was around 6PM and the sky was completely clear, good light. This other object was flashing, but not moving, from what we could tell. It appeared to be circular or slightly oval, with 3 or 4 lights on the outer edges evenly spaced, again, flashing maybe once every couple of seconds (Not sure, didn’t think to time it.) These lights were very bright, bright to the point that when they were on, the object became somewhat of a bright smear in the sky. When they were off, you could see faintly that the shape was roughly circular. The contrail of the plane that had just passed (going north) was still visible. The blinking object appeared to be at around the same altitude as the contrail, although, I am no pro at determining such a thing. So, what do you do when confronted with something like this? Well, you look for more like it of course. We scanned the sky and didn’t see any other similar objects. However, coming from the north going south and close to us, maybe 1000ft up we saw a moving black object. It was an irregular shape and it seemed to change shape as it moved which made us wonder if it was some sort of deflating balloon that had been released. However, it was moving at a pretty steady speed and there really wasn’t much wind. I don’t know how big this thing was and will leave it at that for now because my gut tells me it was unrelated and probably some normal thing. The first object had moved east while we watched the black thing. It had to have moved relatively far because it was noticeably smaller. Then we noticed an object identical to this one coming in from the north, apparently moving in the direction of the first object. By this time, it looked like the first object had stopped moving again, but I could be wrong about that. Hard to tell from that distance/angle. The similar object was clearly on an intersecting path and soon the two met and then from that point on you couldn’t differentiate between them and they slowly faded out. I can’t say much about the speed of the first object because we didn’t see it move to the other location. However, the object that “caught up” with it was moving fast. We are under a major flight path, see planes passing all the time. The second object was moving as fast as or faster than the planes we see passing by. In that moment I thought it was faster, possibly much faster, only because we had just seen a plane pass by and I think memory of that influenced my analysis. But who knows, really? At times like that you’re not exactly thinking about making accurate measurements. Of course, I did not have my phone, having left it in my office, but even if I had my phone, I doubt the pictures would have given much because of the altitude of the objects. For the black object maybe, it would have helped because that was closer, but again, I think that was something likely to have a down to earth explanation. I shared this information with my daughters and they had nothing productive to say, so I gave up on telling anyone else until now.
January 25, 2015 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Westport, CT
While driving on I-95 South last night at 9:40 pm, I observed a fluorescent green sphere traveling up the Saugatuck River at a slow rate of speed. The object descended as it made its way toward I-95, then appeared to disappear from sight as it approached the rooftops of the houses that are located on the riverbank. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2012 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Westport, CT
White-orange lights, in row, slowly crossing sky
June 25, 2012 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Westport, CT
Low, silent procession of orange 15-20 lights slowly flying over Westport to over Long Island Sound