8/30/1977: middlefield, CT, USA

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Occurred : 8/30/1977 19:00 (Entered as : 08/30/1977 7:00 PM) Reported: 3/26/2023 12:40:16 AM 00:40 Posted: 4/9/2023 Location: middlefield, CT Shape: Circle Duration: 5 minutes then time blurs Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, This is a possible UFO abduction case, Missing time was experienced
at the base of low cloud, bottom of saucer craft grayish with ring semi rectangular multi colored lights 100 ft diameter emerged in 1977 my friend skip 18 and me rob 17 two teens, were walking south in a large field atop cherry hill road in middlefield ct. it was partly overcast day i believe evening around 7 pm ,possibly september . we then both noticed emerging from a low cloud like area high above the center of the field a large light greyish saucer like ship emerge with a smaller ring of semi rectangular connected multi colored lights at its base .we both stood calmly in aw it was large surreal ,our focus became the lower ring of lights that were more visible than the saucer at its base as it came down out of the cloud .shortly after it emerged time becomes a blur i only remember us walking home .to this day decades later 2016 skip contacted me the first thing he said to me is do you remember the flying saucer. i forgot about the incident ,then it all came back .

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 8/30/1977 19:00 (Entered as : 08/30/1977 7:00 PM)
Reported: 3/26/2023 12:40:16 AM 00:40
Posted: 4/9/2023
Location: middlefield, CT
Shape: Circle
Duration: 5 minutes then time blurs
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, This is a possible UFO abduction case, Missing time was experienced

at the base of low cloud, bottom of saucer craft grayish with ring semi rectangular multi colored lights 100 ft diameter emerged

in 1977 my friend skip 18 and me rob 17 two teens, were walking south in a large field atop cherry hill road in middlefield ct. it was partly overcast day i believe evening around 7 pm ,possibly september . we then both noticed emerging from a low cloud like area high above the center of the field a large light greyish saucer like ship emerge with a smaller ring of semi rectangular connected multi colored lights at its base .we both stood calmly in aw it was large surreal ,our focus became the lower ring of lights that were more visible than the saucer at its base as it came down out of the cloud .shortly after it emerged time becomes a blur i only remember us walking home .to this day decades later 2016 skip contacted me the first thing he said to me is do you remember the flying saucer. i forgot about the incident ,then it all came back .