FORM 112 - MADAR SIGHTING INFORMATION REPORT
 


NEWINGTON, CONNECTICUT   -   JANUARY 11, 2021


I.   DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT

January 11, 2021; Newington, Connecticut
8:50 pm. The witness and his wife were leaving their house and spotted a black triangle flying at treetop level. It was about a quarter mile north of their position along the Berlin Turnpike (US Route 5 and 15). He saw it first and alerted her to it. They were able to see it for about 6 to 10 seconds as it descended behind the trees / hill sharply turning north towards Cedar Mountain and were able to clearly see the underside of it. It had three white lights, one on each corner and a much smaller yellow/green strobe light in the center.

II.   MADAR DATA

Node 151 is a test node of a field unit shown as Manchester but actually logbooked at Newington that date. The field numbers are not particularly interesting but the compass showed some variation from 4 minutes prior to the sighting. Node 106, however shows a field spike within the minute of 8:50 pm which was 01:50:18 UT and at the 18 sec mark, suggesting the reading might have been higher at some point during than 60-second period. And the opposite was true with the onboard compass on 106 where variations were absent.

III.  STATUS OF INVESTIGATION

Investigated by MUFON, CMS number 113740

IV.   CONCLUSIONS

MUFON: Lists this case as unexplained, Unknown Aerial Vehicle.
MADAR: There was apparently a lack of motion requiring any noteable energy consumption, which could explain why the nodes at Newington (151 and 106) were not actually triggered. There is previous evidence of this from the Millerton, PA when two objects had definitely come into the area which probably created a burst of energy for about 6 seconds, triggered that node, then the two 25' spheres idled down to almost nothing during the 10 minute sighting. The readings in the Newington case are interesting, with the compass variation component falling in line with previous compass cases of which we have over 150+ cases on record. I can't explain the difference in readings where two MADAR dataprobes have the same hardware and software, other than the shield settings. 151 was set at 25 milligaus and 106 was lower at 22. The shield or threshold doesn't affect the compass sensitivity as it does the magnetometer.

Fran Ridge
MADAR OPERATIONS DIRECTOR