Old Lyme, CT, USA
((HOAX?? One of several silly reports from same anonymous source.)) Similar "bright-star" sighting as other reports.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2015-03-06
- Where
- Old Lyme, CT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.316, -72.329 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-old-lyme-ct-2015-66aaa0
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 shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 85 reports came from Connecticut in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.