THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT

1979: Multi Colored lights in Baltic, Connecticut

In the summer of 1978 or 1979, an eight- or nine-year-old and her two younger sisters were in their mother’s car in the unlit driveway of their grandmother’s farm in Baltic, Connecticut. The mother had just started the engine when she spotted something approaching from the northwest. She told the children to get down on the floor so “they” wouldn’t see them. What arrived was enormous — a circular, dark-bodied craft roughly half the size of a tennis court, ringed with continuously cycling lights in white, yellow, red, blue, and black, surrounded by a pale bluish glow, hovering silently approximately thirty feet above the car. And then something happened that the witness still cannot fully account for: she was suddenly standing outside the car near the barn, a “glowing whitish person” was walking toward her, and then she was back inside the car watching the object depart at high speed toward downtown Baltic. She does not know how she got out of the car or how she got back in. The family never wanted to talk about it.

⚠ EDITOR’S NOTE — POSSIBLE MISSING TIME EVENT:

This account contains elements consistent with a CE-IV (abduction) classification — specifically, a gap in continuous memory, unexplained displacement from inside a vehicle to an exterior location, a briefly glimpsed humanoid figure during the memory gap, and a sense of extended elapsed time. However, no structured abduction narrative exists, no hypnotic regression has been conducted, and the witness was a child at the time. The case is classified CE-I based on the confirmed visual observation, with the missing-time and entity elements noted as unresolved.

Date: 1978 or 1979 (summer; witness estimates based on age at time)

Sighting Time: 11:40 PM

Day/Night: Night

Location: Baltic, Connecticut — grandmother’s farm driveway, rural area

Urban or Rural: Rural

No. of Entity(‘s): 1 (briefly glimpsed during memory gap)

Entity Type: Possible humanoid / glowing figure

Entity Description: A “glowing whitish person” seen walking toward the witness near the barn during the missing-time gap. No further details observed before the witness’s next conscious memory was of being back inside the vehicle.

Hynek Classification: CE-I (Close Encounter I) — Visual observation of a structured object within 500 feet. Missing-time and entity elements noted but insufficient for CE-IV classification without further investigation.

Duration: Unknown (subjectively felt like hours; includes possible missing time)

No. of Object(s): 1

Height & Speed: Approximately 31 feet above the car during hover. Departed at very high speed toward the southeast.

Size of Object(s): Approximately half the size of a tennis court (estimated roughly 40–50 feet across)

Distance to Object(s): Directly overhead — approximately 31 feet above the vehicle

Shape of Object(s): Circular / disc-shaped

Color of Object(s): Dark or black body with a light bluish glow surrounding the entire craft. Rim lights cycling continuously in white, yellow, red, blue, and black.

Number of Witnesses: 4 (mother, witness, and two younger sisters)

Special Features/Characteristics: Lights cycled continuously in a circular pattern around the rim. Light bluish aura or glow around the entire craft. Silent hover. Possible electromagnetic effects (proximity to vehicle, though no specific vehicle malfunction reported). Missing time. Witness displaced from inside vehicle to exterior location with no memory of transition. “Glowing whitish person” observed during memory gap. High-speed departure toward the southeast.

Source: Reported directly to Think AboutIt by witness (identified as “C”)

Case Status: Insufficient Data

Summary/Description: In the summer of approximately 1978 or 1979, a family of four — a mother and her three daughters, the eldest approximately 8–9 years old — were in a parked car in the unlit driveway of the grandmother’s farm in Baltic, Connecticut at approximately 11:40 PM. As the mother started the car, she observed a large circular craft approaching from the northwest and told the children to get down. The craft — dark-bodied with a continuous ring of cycling multicolored lights and a bluish glow — stopped and hovered approximately 31 feet directly above the vehicle. It remained there for what felt like an extended period. The witness (eldest daughter) experienced a discontinuity in memory: her next awareness was of standing outside the car near the barn, seeing a “glowing whitish person” walking toward her, and then being back inside the car watching the object depart at high speed to the southeast. The family never discussed the event. The witness has considered but not undergone hypnotic regression.

Detailed Report

The witness, identified only as “C,” was between eight and nine years old at the time — placing the event in approximately 1978 or 1979. During summers, her family would visit her grandmother’s farm in Baltic, a small village in the town of Sprague in eastern Connecticut. On the night in question, the family had stayed late helping on the farm. At approximately 11:40 PM, the mother loaded her three daughters into the car, which was parked in the long driveway approximately 17 yards from the farmhouse, in an unlit area — the closer parking spots had been taken by aunts and uncles.

As the mother started the car, she noticed a large object approaching from the direction of what is now the Mohegan Sun country club area (northwest). She told the children to get down on the floor of the car so “they” would not see them. Despite her mother’s instruction, the witness crouched but continued to watch.

The object stopped directly above the car and hovered. The witness described it as “very huge and circular” — approximately half the size of a tennis court — with lights that cycled continuously around its rim in white, yellow, red, blue, and black. A light bluish glow surrounded the entire craft. No sound was reported. The mother appeared terrified. The witness recalls being simultaneously scared and fascinated.

The next segment of the witness’s memory is discontinuous. Without falling asleep, the witness’s next awareness was of standing outside the car, further down the driveway near the grandmother’s barn at the edge of the woods. She saw a “glowing whitish person” walking toward her. Her next memory after that was of being back inside the car, watching the object fly away at very high speed in a southeastern direction toward downtown Baltic. She does not recall getting out of the car or getting back in. The subjective sense was that hours had passed.

The family never wanted to discuss the event. The witness kept silent for decades for fear of ridicule, and reports that she remains uncertain whether to pursue hypnotic regression. She submitted this account to Think AboutIt in hopes of finding other witnesses from the same area and time period.

Researcher’s Notes

What Happened at the Barn?

Source Assessment: This is a first-person submission from a single witness recounting a childhood experience approximately 45 years after the fact. The account is vivid and emotionally authentic, but childhood memories recalled across decades are subject to reconstruction, confabulation, and narrative smoothing. The witness’s mother and two sisters are potential corroborating witnesses, but the submission indicates the family has never discussed the event. No independent follow-up or formal investigation is documented.
Missing Time and Memory Discontinuity: The core anomaly in this account is not the craft — disc-shaped objects with cycling colored lights at close range are well-represented in the CE literature — but the unexplained transition from inside the car to standing near the barn. The witness explicitly states she did not fall asleep. The gap includes physical displacement (from car interior to exterior, further down the driveway), an anomalous perception (the “glowing whitish person”), and a return to the car with no transitional memory. This pattern — memory gap, physical displacement, briefly glimpsed entity, disorientation upon return — is characteristic of reported CE-IV events. However, the witness has not undergone regression or any formal investigative process, and a childhood memory of this nature cannot carry the evidentiary weight needed for a CE-IV classification.
The “Glowing Whitish Person”: The entity description is minimal — a glowing white humanoid figure walking toward the witness near the barn. No size, no features, no clothing details. This could represent a genuine entity observation, a hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucination associated with the stress of the event, a screen memory, or a confabulated detail inserted during decades of memory reconstruction. The witness herself is uncertain about this element.
Mother’s Reaction: The mother’s immediate instruction — “get down so they don’t see us” — implies either a prior familiarity with such events or an instinctive protective response to an unknown aerial threat. The use of “they” rather than “it” is notable. The mother’s refusal to discuss the event afterward is consistent with either trauma avoidance or a desire to protect her children from a frightening experience they could not process at their age.
Classification Rationale: The page originally classified this as CE-I, which is appropriate for the confirmed visual observation of a structured craft within 500 feet (directly overhead at ~31 feet). The missing-time and entity elements are noted as unresolved anomalies that could indicate a CE-IV event, but the evidence is insufficient for that classification without regression, corroborating witness testimony from the mother or sisters, or further investigation. Status is Insufficient Data.

This is the kind of case that sits in the archive as a question mark — not because the witness is unbelievable, but because the most important part of her experience is the part she can’t remember. The craft overhead is interesting. The glowing figure at the barn is concerning. The gap between those two moments is where the real story may live, and the witness is understandably hesitant to go looking for it. Whatever happened that night in Baltic, four people were in that car, and at least one of them — the mother — knew enough to say “get down so they don’t see us.” That instruction, given before the object even arrived overhead, is the detail that lingers.

SOURCE

I was between the age of 8-9 yrs old, I still remember it as if it had just happened. When I used to go to my grandma’s farm in Baltic, CT during the summer. My family would help on the farm and stay till late and then my mom would drive my sisters and me home. One night, she parked her car along my grandma’s long driveway about 17 yards away from the house and where there was no lighting, because my aunts and uncles had taken up the parking spaces closer to the house. Just as she started the car a large circular flying aircraft flew from the direction where the Mohegan Sun country club is now and then stopped right above our car and just hovered, it seemed like forever.
My sisters and I never told anyone for fear they would call us crazy or just wouldn’t believe us because of our age at the time, but are mom was the one who noticed it 1st as she seen it flying toward us and told us to get down on the floor so they don’t see us, but as I crouched down I couldn’t help to look. Remember being scared and amazed at how huge it was and all the lights going around the edge of it. I honestly thought it was cool as I watched it. My mom looked terrified. I don’t know how long exactly it lasted but it stayed there for quite some time.
I am telling my story now, in hopes to see if anyone back then seen anything similar like us. Given my age that would be between 1978-1979 (telling my age, lol)
But anyhow back to what happened. I didn’t fall asleep but for the life of me I think we lost some time cus the next thing I remember was standing outside the car a little further down the driveway near my grandma’s barn going towards the woods and seeing a glowing whitish person walking towards me and then being back in my mom’s car and watching it fly off very fast in the direction towards downtown Baltic like it was flying in a southeastern direction. I don’t recall how I got out the car or getting back in to be honest or the length of time it all was but it felt like hours had gone by. And my family never wanted to talk about it.
I have always wondered about the lost time but shrugged it off. Questioning if what I remembered truly happened? But now I’m a little nervous seeing articles and videos where some people have under gone past life regression and had a similar experience of lost time and found out that they had been abducted. I’m not saying my life been peaches n cream but that would scare the life out of me to find that out. I’m undecided what to do. Hopefully someone will see this post and has had a similar sighting.