On the dates of Oct. 8, Nov. 11, and Dec. 10, 2013, I documented the appearance of an unidentified flying object which hovers over the Saugatuck Reservoir, in Redding, Connecticut. On each of those dates, the same orange orb appeared above the reservoir and hovered for anywhere between 5, and 30 minutes.
If I had not brought countless people with me to verify what I was seeing about the reservoir, I would have long believed I was simply going crazy. However, more than 5 people from the Weston-Redding area can verify the regular, repeated appearance of this orb over the Saugatuck Reservoir because they have been standing beside me when it appears.
——— My Location ———
Below are three maps which show our location, our line of site, and the location of the floating object. The blue lines represent the opening through which we viewed the orange light. We were only able to witness the light’s movement between the island you see to the left of our line of site (respective to the observer) and the tall pine trees which cover the peninsula to our right. You can find the same maps at https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zwGJfJDQECZY.k7Uby7nJpcsQ
- Visibility maps.
These photos were the first to paint a clear picture of the movement of the orange orb. They are 10-second exposures. Each shows the rate of motion, and direction of motion of the light over the course of 10-seconds for a total of 80-seconds.
Last night, I was finally able to get really positive images of whatever the hell it is.
I’ve been able to speak with multiple people who have seen the lights, and had stories about them going back as far as 1940. That’s not an exaggeration, people have stories passed down from their grandparents about this reservoir and orange lights since at least that time.
Below are eight 10″ exposure pictures of the orange light traveling across the sky. They represent the movement of the light over the course of 80 seconds. You can maybe see it react to the car that drives underneath it.
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—- Dec. 10 —-
These photos show the orb in better focus than the previous two, and are the best pictures of the group. I took two styles of picture that night: 5-second exposures, and 1/50 of a second exposures. The 1/50 pictures clearly show that we are looking at a distinct orange orb with a green aura. The 5-second exposures show how close to the tree line the orange light hovers.
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——— This is not the first time these lights have been reported by observers. ———
(For the record, I am a newspaper reporter who works for a chain of newspapers that includes the newspapers that have covered Redding, Easton, and Weston for a long, long time. No one working at these papers, including the publisher, had ever heard of anything like that which I show below. However, research like this is my job, and I stand behind the information I present to you. But, I cannot guarantee the veracity of the reports listed below. In my opinion, the chances of this many separate reports of similar incidents in one small part of Connecticut over a vast period of time is more than a coincidence.)
As far back as 1966, a Doctor from Darien, Conn. driving past the reservoir noticed lights that seem to match the description of what we had seen. His report was chronicled by the Spartanburg, SC Herald-Journal.
There are also multiple matches for what we saw recorded in the National UFO Reporting Center. Below I partially quote one entry from Feb. 22, 2011:
“Last night at 8pm I looked out my living room window and noticed a flashing bright red light low on the horizon a mile or so away over the Devil’s Den area on the Weston/Redding border. It was low in the sky and unusually bright, much brighter than any airplane lights, flashing and drifting very slowly.”
And another partial quote from Sept. 28, 2010 in Redding:
“I saw a bright light that slowly moved through the sky and seemed to have striations that looked like lightning bolts eminating from it.”
And another partial from Weston in Feb. of 2003:
“Bright light in sky. Not an airplane because it didn’t move. Not a star because it was twinkling white, green and red lights. To the left was another star-like light that seemed to blink a few times then stop…blink again a few time then stop, etc. After 5 mins. or so both lights grew dimmer and more distant until they were gone.”
And another from Norwalk in August of 2007:
“Blinking Bright Star/object, at lower alltitude than normal at stand still/ moving very subtully through the night sky. The UFO appeared to be a a blinking star or a plan. As I laid down in the bed it was descending in a weird fashion.”
—- Oct. 8 —-
The photos from October 8 are the lowest quality of the three. They suffer from extreme camera shake, due to the lack of a tripod, and my lack of camera-use knowledge.
When the light first appeared, we believed we were seeing a plane coming from the east, rising very slowly. However, compared to other planes that very regularly fly over the reservoir at night, it was moving far too slowly, and too erratically. To give the lights some context, I took a picture of a plane traveling above the reservoir just after the orange lights disappeared. It is pictured below.
- An image of a plane captured above the Saugatuck Reservoir after the orange lights disappeared.
As one can see, the lights recorded when taking a picture of a plane were regular, and tightly delineated. I was not taking these pictures with a tripod. Any camera shake is negligible, and the lights of the plane are clearly defined. EXIF data and zoom views are included above.
Contrarily, the pictures taken of the odd orange lights were not clear or well-defined. The following picture was taken with the exact same EXIF settings, from the exact same point on the reservoir as the plane lights above. Yet, it depicts something much less defined, with varying colors. It almost looks like a hieroglyph.
- An image taken of the orange lights seen on Oct. 8 at the Saugatuck Reservoir.
The next image of the orange lights give a much better perspective of how unbelievably low these lights were hovering above the tree line. The brightness and contrast have been edited to show a clearer look at the tree line. Also of note are the green lights which seem to be the source of the orange, glowing lights. This image is also taken at about half the shutter-speed as the above two images, and appears to show the eratic nature of the light’s movement across the sky.
A third image of the lights again shows the clear difference between the green and orange lights in the sky, though the human eye could only pick up the green. When we saw it without a camera lens, the light appeared to be an orange circle floating across the sky.
- An image that shows the orange lights in the sky
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