Old Lyme, CT, USA
((HOAX?? One of several silly reports from same anonymous source.)) Early morning bright light no source.
Report quality: Low18/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2014-10-26
- Where
- Old Lyme, CT, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.316, -72.329 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-old-lyme-ct-2014-40d4f5
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Old Lyme, CT has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 97 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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