NUFORC Sighting 178824

Occurred: 1983-08-19 20:28 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-10-12 12:59 Pacific
Duration: Under one minute.
No of observers: 6

Location: Bridgeport, CT, USA
Location details: Bridgeport CT, by corner State Street/Ash Street

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Saucer or disk moving south to north around sunset, slowly, silent, with lights.

I was young when this happened, and I'm not completely sure which year, but around here. It was the middle of summer and there were half a dozen people in the yard, ranging from children to adults, grilling. This was around sunset, but the sky was still a bit blue. Someone made a remark like "Whats that?" and I looked.

It was a saucer with a dome-like structure top and bottom, more wide than tall overall. From my memory, I was facing basically due west, and it would have been something like 10-20 degrees over the trees/houses if you look west from those coordinates. It moved frame of reference from my left to my right, so approximately moving south to north. It was a fixed sort of motion that I would equate to the smoothness of a steadi-cam or dolly rig in filmmaking terms--ultra smooth, like a very fine train track movement. Dead silent. The surface was hard to tell as the sun would have been backlighting it, and range was hard to tell but given the clarity of the 'outline' of the physical structure I would put it it ballpark around just south of Mountain Grove Cemetery; I know this area well) for when I lost sight of it.

It had a lot of lights from the noted colors in my report in a pattern around its midsection only, so the center/midpoint where top and bottom half of the saucer would meet. My memory is the lights moved, and it would have been a clockwise motion of rotation given the angle (i.e., from my FOV the lights moved right to left as the UFO moved left to right itself, traveling south to north). I could not tell anything of the surface that I remember as it was in shadow, but it was absolutely "solid". I would estimate in hindsight its movement speed (again, hard to tell at range) at somewhere around 10-20 miles per hour. The sky was, or seemed, perfectly clear that evening.

A bunch of the adults when it went out of sight behind the building/became partially obscured at #29 on that street ran after it, but quickly returned saying they lost track of it between buildings. That's it.

Posted 2023-10-28