CaseCircle2011

Orland, ME, USA

I was driving home and saw two light objects low under clouds moving very slowly; then saw six others come out of the clouds.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-05-21
Where
Orland, ME, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 mins
Geo
44.570, -68.736 · exact
Slug
circle-over-orland-me-2011-7fcb32
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Orland, ME.
  • This case is one of 42 Maine reports filed in 2011.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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