NUFORC Sighting 24358

Occurred: 2002-08-11 19:56 Local
Reported: 2002-08-11 17:34 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Roxbury, CT, USA

Shape: Sphere


Dark spherical object sighted moving south to north at a rapid pace in the Litchfield Hills area of Connecticut.

There was one craft dark gray to black in color. The shape was a squashed sphere. There appeared to be a lump on the bottom center. It appeared metalic. It traveled from south to north smoothly and without a sound. We get many balloons over this area. This object did not appear to be a balloon as it traveled much faster.

We are located at N40º 32.517' W73º 20.131'. I was in the back yard at dusk when I looked up to observe a private plane flying over head north to south. I then noticed the object higher and to our west traveling south to north. At first I thought it was another plane, but there was no sound. It looked round and not at all like a plane. I would have dismissed it at that point as a balloon were it not for the color and speed of travel. I ran to the house for binoculars and sure enough it was indeed round (spherical) in shape. My wife and I watched until it disappeared to the north.



NUFORC Note:

Witness describes self as having considerable technical background. PD


Posted 2002-08-16

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