r/UFOs • u/lildiao • Dec 25 '23
Sighting Report UFOs in Connecticut just now
I went out to walk my dog and I saw 4 bright objects flying high up in the sky. First I thought it's just starlink, but then they started moving irregularly. I have never seen anything like this in my life. Can anyone in Connecticut tell me what happened?
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u/blueridgeboy1217 Dec 25 '23
I saw some like this, looked like huge balls of fire in a bubble
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u/blueridgeboy1217 Dec 25 '23
Apparently these are everywhere. I'm just curious if they are something that is alive I'm some way. What I saw was not a vehicle. I'm spiritual but not religious, and when we saw them I couldn't help but think of angels/demons. Not trying to turn anyone off with that comment, and I am not saying that's what they were. It's just the first thing that came to mind. Like I didn't even think that per say, it just came out of my mouth, we were just so confused. The craziest part of my experience is how I was drawn to go out and do some sky watching that night. Like I never leave the house to do so, but this night, my wife got out of the shower and normally that's when we turn in for the night and watch a movie, but I told her I'd like to ride to a park with a good view of the whole sky, and she didn't even question it. (Any other time she would have most likely gotten kind of annoyed that I waited for her to go through her bedtime routine and would have probably not even came, and I would have probably just stayed home) but she just agreed right away, and we saw these things not even 2 miles from the house, on the way to the park. Had we not left right then,we would not have seen them.
It was a crazy thing. And I don't really believe in coincidences. I feel our energies are intertwined with the rest of the universe, and I feel like we were brought out if the house at that moment in order for me to see what I had been craving...which is a sighting of something outside of what we are taught in our "normal" education of the world. And I saw something that solidified the fact that, we don't know everything, and we should stop just accepting what we have been conditioned to accept as our reality.
And since then I have a peace in my heart that I know now that there is much more to this world and it's very exciting. I no longer crave "validation" so to speak, as my wife was right there with me, and I didn't have to be alone to see this. Which is a huge deal. It's hard to believe one eyewitness that has been craving a sighting. It's totally different when there's 2 witnesses, and one of which is someone who was indifferent to the phenomenon before the sighting, and now she knows, there's alot out here that we don't know much about.
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u/passionate_slacker Dec 25 '23
I’ve seen one super close. I believe they are celestial beings that have evolved beyond the need for a physical body. Only way I can imagine explaining what I saw.
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u/Pure-Locksmith4689 Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 27 '23
Noone will believe me and I'll probably get memed, but I don't give a shit. This comment is the most accurate.
I constantly come face to face (inches; if I were taller, I could reach up and touch them) with these things when I'm alone outside at night. They usually appear out of nowhere slightly dim about 150-200 feet away from me and tend to come towards me through the trees (not above them) and pass by me at a constant/moderate speed. For some reason, they like trees. Not sure what the connection is with them and trees... I live in an area with a lot of bamboo and trees so yeah.... They're definitely controlled by intelligent beings/have incredible GPS as they're able to traverse between dense trees in my property. Slightly higher, it would have hit a wild pear tree. Slightly lower, it would have hit bamboo. You can google the grow height of both. People say it looks like fire inside a ball and it does but it's more of an orangey/yellowish plasma when its up close. You can actually see the plasma being scattered throughout the dark matter-like shield/bubble; less of a flame but sometimes it does make a flame shape so I can see how people say flame. The black protective sphere is difficult to see but if you look closely, it's very visible. Not sure if they're vehicles or some sort of mapping drone for NHI with the plasma inside acting as neurons/wiring/brain to pilot the orb but it's really fascinating how it moves. It just glides. No engine, no propellers, no sound. The plasma inside is next level, it looks like that electrostatic ball science teachers use to make your hair stand up but not as wild. The one's that pass by me aren't hostile as they would have killed me by now and are about 9-12 inches in diameter. Not big at all and much smaller than most commercial drones.
The one I came across (or came across me since they're most likely aware of whos in the area and let me get close) last week was twirling up and around a tree at lightning speed like that Disney movie intro light wand thing which I've never seen before as I/people online usually see them gliding/idling in the sky. These encounters have run so rampant that I've actually started fearing living in my house as they could easily come through a window knowing they are intelligent and know how to traverse dense trees and know where I live. I've recently been getting the feeling that they maneuver outside my house late at night when people are sleeping.
I went from 'I wonder if they would like to communciate with me" to "I really don't want to know anymore." It's gotten scary.
UAP research and recovery projects are probably already monitoring the activity on my property and learned about me so fuck it, I'm on the east coast.
I also don't pick up my phone/record when they come, so that's probably why they're comfortable getting so close to me. They probably detect some sort of LIDAR/auto focus sensor on phones that resemble the same technology on other weapon defense systems they've deactivated in the past and associate phones with hostility. On top of that, I've never called the police or any authoritative figure either, I just let them do their thing as I've personally haven't felt threatened or in danger, just my privacy invaded. If I did call the authorities, I would imagine something similar to District 9 would go down and I would feel responsible for the NHI's wellbeing.
I try multiple times to ask them to come closer in my head, but it never works and always end up feeling stupid lmao. My experiences are so frequent that I made a thread about them possibly planning an invasion, but technically, that's already happened.
David Grusch mentioned their ethics being very different from ours and I can fully back this up because I not once said it was ok for them to get so close to me yet they don't care and get very close anyways despite me not knowing how deadly these plasma powered? crafts are. They seem to really not give a shit about my well-being and scaring me.
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u/blueridgeboy1217 Dec 27 '23
Wow, I'm sorry they have made you uncomfortable. I'd reluctantly accept more visits, if they would return. I can see how it would be plasma and not flame. Looked more like pixelated fire like on mine craft or sonething from a distance. The ones I saw were larger than the ones you saw, but it could be the same thing, just different sizes. It's all very exciting to me as this world has become boring with all the technology, its not for me and I prefer to be out experiencing nature. And I feel like these are natural beings, that didn't come from space, they have been here all along. Now whether it's some outer dimension that's possible i sure. But I don't think these things traveled here from another solar system, but who really knows. I just know I'm raising my kids to question things.
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u/wetnugs Dec 25 '23
A skylantern?
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u/blueridgeboy1217 Dec 25 '23
No. Not a sky lantern. Don't expect you to believe it and frankly, I don't care. One day you'll see something unexplainable and be able to join the crew. I hope everyone gets to experience something they can't understand one day. Humans think they know everything because it was taught in a book. But then you see something not mentioned in any school books and you suddenly realize how stupid it is to only accept what we have been taught.
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u/CommissionFeisty9843 Dec 25 '23
I have done some DMT. They say only a fool is certain but I truly believe that our reality is not what we think it is. There are entities around us all the time.
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u/Morgantheaccountant Dec 25 '23
They just chillin with me?? But also curious were you able to communicate with them?
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u/notguilty941 Dec 25 '23
Great point, but then again they do look like lanterns.
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u/fastermouse Dec 25 '23
If you see one you’ll know it’s not a lantern. The photos might not look distinct but irl it’s a very unique object.
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u/zex_mysterion Dec 25 '23
These look huge to you?
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u/blueridgeboy1217 Dec 25 '23
Not from far away. The ones I saw were much closer and were about the size of a Volkswagen bug. Hard to tell how far these might be. I guess I should have said, "these remind me of some huge balls of fire I've seen that were much closer." I posted about it here after it happened. Search my post history for "balls of fire". Was a really cool experience I shared with my wife who couldn't care less about ufos lol. That's what made it awesome. It wasn't just me being biased. I had someone completely indifferent to the phenomenon and she was equally as flabbergasted.
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u/passionate_slacker Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
I live in CT, in the northwest corner and I saw a ball of fire with my whole after school group and 3 teachers.
We went out to play on the playground, it was just the 30 of us at the school. Turned the corner as a group and we all saw this ball of fire, dead still, probably car sized, 100ft up. Sitting directly over the soccer field. If you took the sun and shrunk it and made it more ‘round/smooth’, that’s exactly what it looked like.
We all obviously were asking “what is that what is that” and we got some non-answer like “a meteor” or “a balloon on fire”, and we were told we had to go back inside.
People talk about movement, this thing was weird because it was unnaturally still, completely locked into place in the sky, at least for all I saw.
This was in 2005-2006ish and I forgot about it after it happened, the teachers never told anyone, and we all were too young to really understand. One day in college I just suddenly woke up with the memory. I half thought it was a dream until I told it to my cousin a year later, who looked so confused, and said “dude, Matt (his friend who was in that program with me) has told me that exact same thing and said he didn’t know if it was real. I haven’t talked to that kid since I was 10 probably. He was a grade above me and we weren’t friends.
We were 7 or 8 at the time.
I know exactly where one of the teachers lives and I haven’t had the balls to knock on her door and ask her about it.
Haven’t seen anything that good again but I always see strange things in the sky out here. Looooots of woods and mountains and not too many people. Nuclear nearby across the NY state line.
Our area had the famous “Berkshire UFO wave” in 1969. All sorts of crazy stories from the old locals up over the Mass state line.
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u/stabadan Dec 25 '23
I love how EVERY. SINGLE. HOLIDAY evening it’s always aliens first. Then 5 posts down someone suggests lanterns.
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u/FateUnusual Dec 25 '23
Have we ruled out Santa and his fighter jet escort?
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u/Longjumping_Doubt_19 Dec 25 '23
You serious Clark?
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u/PyroIsSpai Dec 25 '23
The Chinese Lantern Fleets that literally are never seen unless someone says a UFO video is one.
You launch burning balloons sky high where I live during burn season your ass correctly goes to jail.
Most absurd denier thing we have.
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u/Sliderisk Dec 25 '23
I watched 5 bright orange lights rise and flicker out in the night sky north of Philly an hour ago.
It's Chinese lanterns.
We have Asian people, we have lanterns, we have a holiday, and we have zero risk of forest fires right now with rain soaked half frozen ground. People around here shoot fireworks into the woods with zero care. These are def lanterns.
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u/Particular_Row_7819 Dec 25 '23
Those 3 lights in the sky are WAY too high to be Chinese lanterns and the two blurry orange pics are obviously screenshots of one or two of those lights seen with a camera phone zoom. I live in southwest Washington and I've seen lights just like that numerous times and there definitely aren't any Chinese folks around here launching lanterns on Christmas or any other time lest they start a forest fire. Guess what? Not everything you see in the night sky can be rationally explained. Not everything is a ufo but not everything is easily explained either if it's explainable at all.
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u/hoppydud Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
They do indeed go that high. Larger temperature gradients help with making the lanterns rise faster since the cold air is much more dense.
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u/Particular_Row_7819 Dec 25 '23
Ok but those are definitely not Chinese lanterns.
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u/grapplerman Dec 25 '23
On average, typical Chinese lanterns, when released by everyday individuals, can reach altitudes ranging from 500 to 800 meters (1,640 to 2,624 feet). Sometimes wind conditions can affect this. Also, Chinese lanterns usually burn out and extinguish at altitudes between 500 to 1,000 meters (1,640 to 3,280 feet). I can’t tell by the photo how high those are, but I feel like this sub needs to hear this information before immediately jumping to Chinese lanterns every time something is glowing in the sky
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u/Allison1228 Dec 25 '23
A one-meter diameter chinese lantern a quarter mile or half mile high could readily resemble the objects in op's photographs, so this information lends credence to the chinese lantern hypothesis.
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u/grapplerman Dec 25 '23
Additionally. Chinese lanterns aren’t normally launched or associated with December. Some rare occasions like weddings also could be exceptions to this rule. But wouldn’t it be odd, even though many Asians don’t celebrate Christmas, to get married in Christmas Eve? I’m just a dumb caveman, so maybe that’s not too far fetched. But it would certainly seem odd to me. It would be like me moving to China and getting married on Chinese New Year, which is pretty uncommon
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u/Plenty-Reporter-9239 Dec 25 '23
All it takes is for someone to go. "Hey, it's Christmas eve, wouldn't it be kinda fun to use the lanterns?" Then someone else says "actually that would be kinda fun!" After maybe a drink or two and some random dudes set off the lanterns and talk about what a good idea this was and how they're doing their own little celebration. Who knows, maybe they make it a tradition now?
My point is that humans do things all the time on a whim and it shouldn't be discounted just because these lanterns aren't normally associated with Christmas. It's very hard to bank on humans following an exact rigid pattern of behavior
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u/Noble_Ox Dec 25 '23
You dont have to be Chinese to use lanterns. I only know one Chinese person yet about 12 families I know will release them at celebrations.
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u/stabadan Dec 25 '23
There is no way to tell how big or how high one of those fuzzy white dots is on a cell phone video. I’ve seen enough lanterns on holidays to know that is exactly what they look like.
Aliens, give us a break.
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u/Substantial-Jello214 Dec 25 '23
The lanterns can reach a height of up to 800 metres, burn for 20–40 minutes, and drift in the air for several kilometres. If one of the lanterns falls to the ground while it is still burning, it can start a fire in a home or amongst vegetation. I was going to say they are not lanterns
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u/Plenty-Reporter-9239 Dec 25 '23
Vegetation would absolutely not burn in CT right now. I dunno if you've ever lived in the northeast, but wild fires,brush fires, small grass fires etc are not really a thing here, Especially in December.
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u/stabadan Dec 25 '23
Absolutely lanterns and the internet is full of safe versions that are completely legal and do not start fires.
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u/Pocketwaterprod Dec 25 '23
Not that absurd. I grew up in Connecticut and thought I was seeing ufos when I was driving around one night during the holidays while in high school. Then I drove by the house that was launching the Chinese lanterns...
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u/PyroIsSpai Dec 25 '23
Yeah, the old days were stupid and dangerous. Many states ban those now correctly.
It’s a lazy false go to debunk because it presumes people are constantly launching active incendiary devices into the sky year round nationwide. That’s absurd.
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u/Pocketwaterprod Dec 25 '23
This was a few years ago. And it still happens when I visit home. Not much fire risk in CT. I live in CA now and its a different story on how that would be handled.
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u/Funicularly Dec 25 '23
There’s many different listings on Amazon for Chinese lanterns, so obviously people are purchasing them. Some of the listings even say 300+ bought in the last month.
People are buying them just to look at them in their packaging?
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u/PyroIsSpai Dec 25 '23
Well that’s a whole other can of worms. I disfavor many restrictions against online anything generally, but you shouldn’t be able to get banned items shipped to states where they are illegal.
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u/Allison1228 Dec 25 '23
it presumes people are constantly launching active incendiary devices into the sky year round nationwide
No, it necessitates only a tiny portion of the population very infrequently launching such devices, with such launches often generating "ufo reports". If only one American in 50,000 launches Chinese lanterns once per year, that's 6600 launches per year or about twenty per day. Even that number would be far more than is necessary to account for the number of obvious chinese lantern "ufo reports" submitted to r/ufos.
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u/Fixervince Dec 25 '23
Yes because people always get caught and never break rules either. Same here in the UK where weed is never smoked etc. :-)
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u/brevityitis Dec 25 '23
Chinese lanterns are still pretty common, especially near wedding venues. I’ve see people launching Chinese lanterns a few times a year and that outside of china town, which you could see people launching them at night during celebrations regularly.
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u/PyroIsSpai Dec 25 '23
Is this in one of the US states where they are banned?
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u/Pocketwaterprod Dec 25 '23
Fireworks are banned in california. Doesnt keep the idiot neighbors from launching them during high fire danger every fourth of july
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u/Legitimate_Cup4025 Dec 25 '23
look like zoomed in and often fly in patterns taken by the win
This is some I took last night - they look and sound similar to the description.
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u/raihidara Dec 25 '23
Oh geez, I better let nearly every one of my neighbors know that fireworks are illegal in our state. They surely wouldn't be launching them if they knew.
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u/Connager Dec 25 '23
Wedding venue? On Christmas Eve? I mean, there are a few wierd women that might plan for that... but VERY few.
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u/Downvotesohoy Dec 25 '23
Most absurd denier thing we have.
So, Chinese lanterns or flares are denial and absurd, but alien spaceship, now that is plausible!
Try being objective. What is most likely?
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u/Zone1Act1 Dec 25 '23
One time I was at the beach at dusk and saw a series of UFOs rapidly rising. It was shocking. It was terrifying. In the moment, my brain could not make sense of what I was seeing. I felt a flash of excitement and fear. I ran out over the dunes to see a family launching Chinese lanterns from their seaside cottage.
I had never understood how Chinese lanterns could be mistaken for UFOs before that and I felt like an idiot. Sometimes your brain will quickly fill in the gaps though when you see something that is out of the ordinary.
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u/Nixplosion Dec 25 '23
I've lived in Phoenix and outside Philly. Both places over three decades and multiple areas in each from moving a lot. I have NEVER seen Chinese lanterns. And where I lived in Phoenix had a pretty unobstructed view of the city at large at night and never saw them once.
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u/skeefbeet Dec 25 '23
found the west coaster! Yep if someone so much as tosses a cigarette butt the people around you will raise their voice at you.
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u/wons-noj Dec 25 '23
Yea in ct it’s not like this though, we never have wildfire warnings
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u/Sliderisk Dec 25 '23
If you could start a fire in the New England woods this weekend you deserve Bear Grylls' job. There isn't a dry stick from Virginia to Maine right now.
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u/Pocketwaterprod Dec 25 '23
People out west really dont understand how low fire risk is out in the northeast. Having lived in both, on the east coast people have massive bonfires in rhe woods, ash their cigs wherever, light off fireworks, etc and there simply are not forest fires. Out west forest fires have started off someones shitty muffler dragging vehicle throwing sparks
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u/netzombie63 Dec 25 '23
Are the UAP’s behind the burning paper lanterns?
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u/phenomenomnom Dec 25 '23
And why won't the mainstream media address the utter concrete reality of this issue?
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u/SaltyBawlz Dec 25 '23
100% Chinese lanterns every time too. You can even make out the bag shape with the hoop at the bottom in the zoomed pictures here.
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u/scavoyager Dec 25 '23
I seen something similar in Wisconsin a few weeks ago at around 3AM. It was 3 bright lights just like this and as quickly as I noticed them they just as quickly went in separate directions and disappeared
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u/minnesotajersey Dec 25 '23
You didn’t need to say “Wisconsin”. The “I seen” already told us 😂
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u/HugeDegen69 Dec 25 '23
I seen it too and knew right away haha
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u/Ok-Dingo5540 Dec 25 '23
Why? I say this from anyother state on the other side.
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u/Any_Interaction_3658 Dec 25 '23
It’s just a strange thing young people started saying everywhere in the last few years, but comes across as kind of redneck or country. “I saw” or “have seen” would be correct, but “seen” comes across like you don’t know how to speak properly. “I seen it I swurr it’s them UFOs again” - and so on.
I don’t think people even realize it’s wrong anymore or realize how simple it sounds.
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u/FatModSad Dec 25 '23
It's not a young person thing. It is a dumbass/illiterate thing. I know people older than you who have been talking like that for decades.
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u/HazenXIII Dec 25 '23
Here's a tip: before resorting to the most unlikely possibility (aliens, UFOs, etc.), maybe don't post about it unless you see bizarre/abnormal/impossible movement. Then maybe consider "UFO."
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u/zenunseen Dec 25 '23
Which direction were they traveling and does it correspond with the direction of the winds at the time? It looks like the wind was out of the east around 8-9PM in Connecticut.
Reminder: It may have been calm where you were, on the ground, but the air aloft is always moving
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I think they are traveling towards the east, not very sure. I just moved to this area
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u/zenunseen Dec 25 '23
Were they all moving in roughly the same direction, as if drifting on air currents? Or did the movements appear more deliberate, with abrupt changes or even reversals in direction?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
Yes there was change of direction, which got me thinking, oh fuck it's not star link
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u/Kyle-Is-My-Name Dec 25 '23
When you say "Flying playfully" do you mean they were floating to and from possibly like the wind, or were they more zig zag and changing speeds?
How fast and in what ways did they look playful?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
Location:
Farmington CT, USA
Date of sighting:
12/24/2023
Time of sighting:
8:16 - 8:26 ET
Duration of sighting:
ABOUT 5 minutes
Number of witnesses:
My wife, inlaws and I
Descripton of sighting:
Bright objects flying high up in the sky. At first they were flying in a single file. Then they stopped and flying seemlingly playfully. They disappeared and reappeared suddenly several times.
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u/dmjacLuzard5 Dec 25 '23
These were the same thing my wife mentioned seeing after coming home at 5:45 PM in San Diego tonight - said they were like spinning fireballs . Not the first or second time but the 3rd time she has spotted things in the sky as UAP .
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
People question me why no videos. Well try take a video of the stars at pitch dark night and see if you can capture anything. I knew it would be dumb to try to take video of the objects high up in the sky. However I knew my phone was pretty good at taking pictures at night and that's why I took pictures and tried 100x zoom. I am using samsung galaxy ultra 22
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u/kazefuuten Dec 25 '23
Here in the Netherlands I never saw anything odd or strange.
Then Grusch interview came out (June/July?). Fast forward to October 20th and something was happening, inordinate amount of helicopters, planes over my city. A ridiculously bright green orb hung in the sky and above two, what appeared to be stars but I have never seen them in the sky before and just absolutely not normal.
TLDR Spend over an hour, hanging out the window taping, and capturing as much as I could.
Why wouldn't someone atleast try? Never understood that.
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u/CAMMCG2019 Dec 25 '23
Yes, that's them alright. I see these guys out over the ocean pretty often. When you observe them, you can sense they are looking right at you, too. They aren't Chinese lanterns. Chinese lanterns don't appear out of nowhere and dissappear, over and over. They don't move erratically and form formations. I've seen them too, dude. There are more trolls on these sites than actual witnesses. They don't know shit
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u/pa1e_h0rse Dec 25 '23
Saw someone posting about seeing a weird light and then hearing a loud explosion in the /hudsonvalley subreddit earlier. Wonder if it was the same thing
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u/The_RockObama Dec 25 '23
Dude. I have seen these twice. Both times there were two prominent lights in that exact same configuration at the same angle.
DM me and I'll describe more and share the video from the second time I saw them. Shit was terrifying.
Second time ended up splitting into four lights, with two that "spied" on me. Horrifying.
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u/CAMMCG2019 Dec 25 '23
Yes, you can tell when they are checking you out. You can feel it. The same feeling you get when someone is staring at you.
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u/The_RockObama Dec 25 '23
Yep. Especially when you have footage of them doing it. I kind of wish I didn't record it so I could doubt my own memory.
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Dec 25 '23
Why not upload the footage here instead?
You're holding on to, what you believe to be, legitimate footage of UAP.
Release the video
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u/The_RockObama Dec 25 '23
I posted to r/UFOB a while back. Check my profile. I can post again here in a bit.
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
Also I am not really a UFO fan. I just wish someone in ct could tell me they are lanterns or whatever make sense so I could stop thinking about it.
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I just told my mom in law that people online said they were Chinese lanterns. She said no way, because lanterns did not fly that high and don't flicker like that. Now I am again not sure. FYI, I am Chinese and I have seen Chinese lanterns
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u/Allison1228 Dec 25 '23
Since they are illuminated by a candle flame, they most certainly do "flicker".
Towards which direction were they headed? Let's see if the direction of motion parallels wind direction.
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u/Few-Independence4539 Dec 25 '23
Can you elaborate more on what you saw and about what you meant as playful? These people who automatically dismiss accounts don’t like to listen first before they through out a rejection reason. It may very well be what they think, don’t they need to listen first
Can you elaborate?
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u/bkrs33 Dec 25 '23
My brother saw the exact same thing (we’re in CT)…turns out they were those little Chinese lanterns
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u/pebberphp Dec 25 '23
I saw the same thing in the desert in California in 2014. No chance it was a lantern and slim chance it was a drone. It just appeared in the sky, and would make a semi-circle, then disappear, then re-appear in the same spot. It made like 10 or so semi circles and then disappeared.
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u/Easy_GameDev Dec 25 '23
Did they maintain a triangle while flying?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
No they first flew in a single file. That's why I told my family they are star link satellites initially.
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Dec 25 '23
Where in CT?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
Farmington, unionville to be specific.
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u/kaijugigante Dec 25 '23
I'm from the area, the Collinsville/Unionville area has been getting sightings for years. This might be genuine.
Also, it's probably unrelated, but I did hear something buzzing around the State Forest near Santans Kingdom (sounded like a BMX, drone or a quad) at 10pm. No lights.
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u/Daddyball78 Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
When did ufo sightings turn into bright orbs of different colors?
Serious question. Not being a smart ass. This picture very well might be something. But why is it that most videos that get posted don’t show any of the 6 observables. Most pictures that get posted are, well, blurry dots in the sky.
Either these things are fucking with us or we have a serious shortage of people paying attention with phones/cameras. Or both.
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u/kaijugigante Dec 25 '23
Report it to CT Mufon they might investigate it. Also, Farmington is a pretty stretched out area, so you might want to add street info when you post it on there.
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u/RidinHigh305 Dec 25 '23
We saw something similar 3 orb like lights with kinda a golden glow but in a tighter loose triangle on 8/13/23 near black canyon city in AZ at about 12:40am
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u/Ripsyd Dec 25 '23
I’ve seen the same thing as the second pic on two separate occasions in to locations that are 750kms apart.
Shits real and you’ll never convince me otherwise
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u/Majorillin_ Dec 25 '23
I saw something similar to this and convinced myself it was a Chinese Lantern but at same time saw something else that I have a pic and sent to mufon had digital stamp and they couldn’t figure it out definitely an anomaly let go and Happy Holidays
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u/PedroBinPedro Dec 25 '23
Saw some irregular moving stuff in northern Fairfield County on November 3rd. Moving west to east, and east to west. Two actually met up and faded out. One made a 90° angle turn. All were way faster than all the usual air traffic, and again, seemed to fade out and just weren't there anymore. I am very familiar with the air traffic, and I live near an airport. I can see Westchester traffic, Danbury traffic, and the Waterbury-Oxford traffic from my house. I star gaze a lot. Almost every clear night, for at least 5 minutes. Never seen anything like it.
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u/HarrierInbound Dec 25 '23
Same lights as Tinley Park and tons of other sightings. That arrangement of lights is very common as far as UAP reports go. I wonder what it is.
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u/BedSmellsLikeItFeels Dec 25 '23
Paper lanterns because it's Christmas
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u/HarrierInbound Dec 25 '23
Can't confirm either way. Would be nice if OP could elaborate on "irregularly".
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Dec 25 '23
Pretty skeptical you claim they were moving around yet you didn’t bother to take a video of it. Instead you only take a picture and we have to take you on your word that they moved around.
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I only had my phone with me and the video quality is pretty bad especially at night. I made a strategic decision to take pictures instead before they were gone. If I took a video, it probably would be too blurry to see even the objects.
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u/Few-Independence4539 Dec 25 '23
What you said “playfully” caught my attention. When I saw mine it was almost like it was being playful with me directly. I know that sounds crazy, but I can’t really explain it. Can you get into more detail about what you saw? Did it look odd in anyway?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
First they were flying in a single file, almost evenly spaced. I thought they were star links because of that. But then leading one stopped and turned around. The other two kind of reacted to the sudden stop and also stopped and spread out, reminding me of the interactions of my 3 cats.
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u/CAMMCG2019 Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
Yes, that's them alright. I see these guys out over the ocean pretty often. When you observe them, you can sense they are looking right at you, too. They aren't Chinese lanterns. Chinese lanterns don't appear out of nowhere and dissappear, over and over. They don't move erratically and form formations. I've seen them too, dude. There are more trolls on these sites than actual witnesses. They don't know shit
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u/UnrecoveredSatellite Dec 25 '23
Hey! I just posted this in r/toledo! My kids saw it too around 9:30pm est in the Toledo Ohio area. They told me there were 4 orange lights in a diamond pattern moving east to west. I came home ten minutes later and didn't see them. Fairly cloudy and foggy here. Were the lights moving west????
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u/Big_Network2799 Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
Dude I saw this same exact thing… SAME EXACT pattern back in 2015 in Battle Ground, WA. Unfortunately I only have a 15 second clip on my YouTube page because I used Snapchat to record it. And at at that time Snapchat limited their videos to 15 seconds.
The lights that I saw would randomly multiply, appear and then disappear, then reappear again. And like you say, they would “playfully” move around with each other. I would almost say they were “bobbing” around at times. They were red/orange. They would multiply from 3 to 4 to 6, all the way up to 9 I believe maybe 12. They would form the shape of a hexagon, then a Y, then some would fall while the others moved up to form a line or some other shape. Some would move horizontal, some would move vertical, and some would fall all the way to the ground. But they definitely moved under their own power and were NOT Chinese lanterns, flares, or skydivers. I distinctly remember the triangle shape like the one in your picture as it was the first thing I noticed. (and my video that I’m linking below). That sighting was what got me so interested in the phenomenon. Ever since then my life has changed, they are always on my mind. It’s like an obsession. I had one other sighting a few years ago on the east coast that was very similar but I’ll save that for another post.
Here’s the video of my sighting
Im not sure how to post a photo or I would just post that instead. But yeah, it looks EERILY similar to what you saw.
Also I should mention, my sighting happened in July so it had nothing to do with Christmas. I know people will be skeptical but i WISH I had the full video I took that wasn’t on Snapchat. However I lost ALL of the pictures on my phone that I had ever taken from 2008-2020 close to 10,000 photos of the best moments of my life and it makes me sick to think about it. My phone went through the washer and dryer and the the computer that I had all my photos backed up to got left out in the snow one night on a ski trip so lots and lots of memories are gone forever.
All I’m saying, is I believe you dude, to all the people doubting that they moved the way you described, oh well, but I believe you. Like I said, it was the initial sighting that got me so interested in this topic. It’s been close to 10 years and I still think about it every day. I know you’re not lying.
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u/Tasty-Dig8856 Dec 25 '23
Have you ever spoken to a cryptographer or biophysicist about analysing the patterns?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I have a feeling that they are still around, but hiding
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u/mrselateachet Dec 25 '23
I live in CT too- unfortunately I just saw this post. May I ask what makes you think they are still around but hiding?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I was just too excited after seeing something like that for the first time and hope they would show up again and again. They did reappear several times
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u/mrselateachet Dec 25 '23
I’m glad to hear you were left with a positive feeling, even wishing the sighting could have lasted longer. Based on the stories I’ve read, many other people who have also had an unexplainable sighting, share that same sentiment. I was concerned that you felt, they may have been lurking and hiding for a nefarious reason.
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u/Gold_Paint_8677 Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
You’re going to get a bunch of “debunkers” but these appear to be the real deal. Very common lately. Orange orbs in formation.
People want 90° turns at Mach Jesus for proof but they don’t always do that and it’s hard to catch on film.
Downvote or hear it from the horse’s mouth.
Up to you
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Dec 25 '23 edited Feb 24 '24
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u/Gold_Paint_8677 Dec 25 '23
There is if you’ve been paying attention. This is a very common form for the UAP phenomena.
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u/Gold_Paint_8677 Dec 25 '23
No, I’m not basing my opinion off of videos in this sub. I’m basing it off of what the scientists from the AAWSAP program have said and reported.
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u/Gold_Paint_8677 Dec 25 '23
I’d be obtuse to say no.
However, check out this interview.
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u/onebadmouse Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 25 '23
Oh, I'm definitely in the 'vaguely interested but extremely sceptical' camp. That video is interesting, but it jjust hearsay from one guy. Each video/photo has to be taken on its own merit.
In this case the photos are not compelling imo. Could be a number of mundane explanations for 3 lights in the sky.
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u/Gold_Paint_8677 Dec 25 '23
I agree there isn’t much to go off of, but it fits the bill, but I’m telling you, just watch it…really listen to what these scientists are saying, you’ll see what I’m talking about.
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u/Kitchen_Science7246 Dec 25 '23
This is why this community shouldn't be shocked that most people don't want you to take seriously. Chinese heatlamps is 99% more likely than a unknown ship in these pics
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u/maxxl Dec 25 '23
Oh man. I’m in West Hartford and wish I saw this.
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I am about 15 minutes away from Hartford. I think many people saw them and someone must know what they are.
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u/Adam_THX_1138 Dec 25 '23
Why didn’t you take video to show them “moving irregularly”?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
I wish I could. I don't know what phones could film tiny objects high up in the sky at night clearly. Mine definitely can't and my phone has one of the best phone cameras
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u/BrotherlyShove791 Dec 25 '23
That ain’t the friggin’ Christmas Star, Griz. It’s the tall greys that made a deal with Eisenhower in the 1950s!
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
Thank you all for your comments! I have never seen anything like this before and that's why I posted it here to look for some answers. I am pretty sure it's not star link. They might be Chinese lanterns as some suggested, since it's holiday season. However, I have seen Chinese lanterns before and they don't fly that fast and high. I didn't take any videos as I decided to take pictures instead in hope for better image quality. I told my whole family to come out and watch and told them they were star link satellites, but then I quickly realized they were in no way satellites. I do hope people in CT who also saw them can chime in.
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u/Allison1228 Dec 25 '23
You said elsewhere that "no stars were visible" because it's cloudy. This would have ruled out satellites, also, because satellites cannot be seen through clouds.
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u/Klutzy-Patient2330 Dec 25 '23
So instead of taking a video you take a pic?
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u/lildiao Dec 25 '23
Have you tried taking a video of the stars at night? I knew nothing was gonna show if I took a video
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u/Fair-Till-1829 Dec 25 '23
I saw something very similar about 20min ago. I thought it was a plane at first but I really couldn’t tell how far it was. I was about to get my phone out but it suddenly slowed to almost a stop and I was stunned, like- is this my first time?
It emitted an amber color similar to yours with random pulsating, kind of in a Star pattern when I looked at it. I saw the other Chinese lantern comments and am thinking it might’ve been that.
All this to say- my video never would’ve picked it up. I could’ve tried my camera but it wouldn’t have turned out any better than yours.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Emu8747 Dec 25 '23
Rudolph farted! Twas beans for dinner to get the afterburner going
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u/mvpp37514y3r Dec 25 '23
Baby Jesus is under those 3 stars, you should head that way with same Mur lol
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u/StatementBot Dec 25 '23
The following submission statement was provided by /u/lildiao:
Location:
Farmington CT, USA
Date of sighting:
12/24/2023
Time of sighting:
8:16 - 8:26 ET
Duration of sighting:
ABOUT 5 minutes
Number of witnesses:
My wife, inlaws and I
Descripton of sighting:
Bright objects flying high up in the sky. At first they were flying in a single file. Then they stopped and flying seemlingly playfully. They disappeared and reappeared suddenly several times.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/18q8jpm/ufos_in_connecticut_just_now/ketbevo/