Old Lyme, CT, USA
white (looked like a planet) with red and green flashing around it, like police lights. CT. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-10-30
- Where
- Old Lyme, CT, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- half hour
- Geo
- 41.316, -72.329 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-old-lyme-ct-2006-3010f1
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
- One of 11 documented reports from Old Lyme, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 31 sightings in 2006.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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