Otter Creek, ME, USA
Rod-shaped object with multi-colored lights. Changing pos. and/or shape in SE sky. ((NUFORC Note: Star "Sirius." 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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 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
- 2015-01-28
- Where
- Otter Creek, ME, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 44.318, -68.208 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-otter-creek-me-2015-9f0725
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
- Otter Creek, ME shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Maine in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.