Smyrna Mills/Oakfield/Island Falls, and Patten, ME, USA
I personally, was driving home from a boyfriend's house while on the phone with him and noticed the sky light up bright blue for just a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-14
- Where
- Smyrna Mills/Oakfield/Island Falls, and Patten, ME, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 46.130, -68.164 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-smyrna-mills-oakfield-island-falls-and-patten-me-2009-4d7d11
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
- Smyrna Mills/Oakfield/Island Falls, and Patten, ME shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from Maine in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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