More than 100 UFOs sightings reported in CT last year

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More than 100 UFO sightings were reported in Connecticut last year to the National UFO Reporting Center.

The center, based in Davenport, Wash., says it makes no claims as to the validity of the information in any of these reports. “Obvious hoaxes have been omitted, however most reports have been posted exactly as received in the author's own words.”

“We hope that this information will prove to be useful to the general public and the UFO community at large.”

A 2017 study by Chapman University in California found that 35 percent of Americans believe that aliens have come to Earth in the ancient past; 23 percent believe aliens are still visiting in modern times.

Whether or not you believe these reports, the Connecticut UFOs are worth a look. In all, there were 107 Connecticut UFO reports in 2018.

>>Click through the slideshow to see some of the reported UFO sightings in Connecticut in 2018. Click here for the full list.

According to The Guardian, the number of UFO sightings has been declining. It reported the two major online sites for reporting UFOs - the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network - both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings.

It reported the declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55 percent of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.

Cultural historian Stuart Walton told The Guardian, “belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”

The National UFO Reporting Center said it has recently seen a high volume of prank calls on its hotline, “typically dozens per day…we suspect that the same problem may spill over to the stream of incoming written reports.”

However, it said, “there are, nevertheless, many excellent reports, submitted by anonymous parties, that deserve a reader’s attention, so a anonymous report is not necessarily unreliable.”