Connecticut police officer captures UFO the size of a ‘Mini Cooper’ hovering 30 feet above his patrol car

A Connecticut policeman has gone public with an eerie tale after a glowing UFO the size of a ‘Mini Cooper’ hovered over his patrol car.

Robert Klein, who was working the night shift in April of 2022, described how the object’s intense, color-changing light flooded inside his vehicle while he approached a local reservoir in Fairfield County at 11.45pm ET.

‘It lit up the entire cab of my cruiser to the point where I was having a hard time driving because I really couldn’t see,’ Klein stated. ‘I was blinded by it.’ 

The veteran policeman described the large spherical light as having a ‘plasma-like’ quality.  ‘I’ve seen my fair share of drones and meteors,’ Klein said. ‘This was something I’ve never come across before.’

Hoping to get a better look, Klein said that he pointed his own spotlight at the strange object as it beamed light back on him from 30 feet above. 

The UFO then made a shocking, ‘instantaneous’ movement to the bank across the reservoir where it continued to hover.

‘That’s when I sort of snapped out of it and took out my camera and started recording and taking pictures,’ Klein recollected. 

The police officer released his video of UFO over Thanksgiving weekend.

Klein, who told his story to NewsNation host Ashleigh Banfield of ‘Banfield’ last Wednesday, said he was amazed by the both the apparent speed and acoustic signature of this airborne, plasma-like object.

‘I couldn’t see it go from A to B, that’s how fast it moved,’ he said. ‘It gave off a low hum, which was very distinct.’

The veteran police officer took pains to emphasize that, in the early moments of his encounter, he was able to get ‘a very close-up view of it’ from 30 feet below the hovering, orb-like object: ‘It wasn’t a drone — I can guarantee you that.’ 

‘I froze,’ Klein told NewsNation as he recalled that moment looking up at the object. ‘I wasn’t in fear. I just was really trying to understand what exactly I was looking at.’

‘I was trying to just process what I was looking at,’ he said. ‘Still to this day, I’m perplexed.’

Klein recalls that his midrange car-sized UFO cycled through four colors in total, red, green, white and orange.

Adding credibility to his story, this late night encounter matches the behavior of UFOs also spotted ‘flashing red, green, and white lights‘ above US Air Force joint-base Langley-Eustis in Virginia across 17 nights late last year and in more recent cases across the UK. 

Swarms of noisy, small UFOs were seen at dusk ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and displaying ‘flashing red, green, and white lights’ penetrating the highly restricted airspace above Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for over two weeks this time last year, December 2023.

The rogue fleets of small aircraft would disappear into thin air each night despite being hunted by the best hardware the Air Force and NASA had on hand.

General Glen VanHerck, the commander with North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command, has called for authorization to use special surveillance equipment on US soil to get to the bottom of the incursions.

Officer Klein reached out to UFO researcher and TV presenter Ben Hanson via one of his websites, offering his testimony and video of the encounter.

Hanson described the episode as a classic case resembling a scene straight out of Steven Spielberg ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ in which a vehicle driven by Richard Dreyfuss’s character is similarly bathes in blinding light.

‘Incidentally, anyone who’s watched the [US Senate] hearings lately with AARO,’ Hanson told NewsNation, ‘they’d mentioned [covered] a similar event on the West Coast with another police officer who described an object the size of a Prius.’

Hansen, the host of the Discovery+ docu-series ‘UFO Witness’ said he is still actively pursuing this case, on the hunt for potential additional witnesses who could help to corroborate Klein’s testimony or offer more physical evidence. 

The seasoned UFO investigator said that he already has a line on a separate incident involving multiple orbs witnessed by people at a local community center.

‘Our team is going to be going out to Connecticut on the ground,’ Hansen told NewsNation.