Inside was an article about a Waterbury woman who had spotted what seemed like the same object, on the same night and at around the same time. That’s when it all came back to her and she contacted The Bee Monday afternoon to report it.

“When I saw the article, I thought, ‘Oh my God,’” she said this week. “I was home letting my dog in the house. Whatever it was came right along Upper Grassy Hill Road where I live. What I saw was exactly how [the woman in last week’s article] described it, except I didn’t see a red light. All I saw were green lights and it was making a lot of noise.”

According to the eyewitnesses, the UFO was traveling west-to-east across the sky. The object could have first passed through Newtown and then moved on to the Southbury/Woodbury area.

But not all the eyewitnesses say the incident was so mysterious. On Wednesday of this week, Curt Michaels of Swamp Road called The Bee to say what he saw was nothing more than a twin-engine airplane flying extremely low.

“It was literally only about 100 yards up. It was right around that time frame, 7:15 or so. I was on my way to my sister in-law’s house which is on Swamp Road,” he recalled. “I saw this thing coming over my in-law’s house heading right for me. It was really low off the ground. I watched it through the sunroof in my truck. The only reason why I stopped was because I thought it was going to crash.”

Mr Michaels, a disk jockey for 98Q radio station, said he had the perfect vantage point. “It literally flew right over me. “I’m telling you man, it was a plane. I believe in UFOs, but I can’t see how people might misconstrue it,” he said.

Last week, Susan Nerich, a head custodian at Taunton Press, reported she saw a strange-looking object in the sky as she traveled along Route 25 near the Newtown/Monroe border.

“Something caught my eye to the right of me, just over the tree line,” Ms Nerich told The Bee. “At first I thought it was a jet that was coming down and I thought, ‘holy cow, I’m going to be really close to it if it crashes.’ It was coming across the road as I was approaching. It was a six-sided thing, like a hexagon. It had four or five ridges on the bottom, five turquoise lights and one small red light. It was going slow.”

Shocked and shaken, Ms Nerich called her boss, who lives off Bears Hill Road, which is not far from where the sighting took place.

“I said, ‘Guess what I just saw right near your house,’” she told The Bee last week. “Forty minutes later, he called back to say there were little planes flying around doing a grid pattern.”

Mrs Pierwola, who is married to Kevin, a former Newtown resident, said the object moved slowly along the tree line then disappeared in the distance.

The Newtown Police Department said it did not receive any calls regarding UFO sightings. There have been calls over the years, however, according to Lt David Lydem.

“They’re usually explainable, though,” he said. “Someone will call saying they saw flashing lights and it turns out there was an ambulance in the area.”