Old Orchard, ME, USA
Very bright orange-red (like a flame) circle shape light, steady, not moving, over the sea, decreased in seize and then disapered.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-14
- Where
- Old Orchard, ME, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3
- Geo
- 43.517, -70.378 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-old-orchard-me-2012-2f4d49
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 Orchard, ME shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 103 reports came from Maine in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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