CaseCircle2015

Sanford, ME, USA

Circular object, sliently hovering.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-06-19
Where
Sanford, ME, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
43.439, -70.774 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sanford-me-2015-57caac
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

  • Sanford, ME has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 58 reports from Maine.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

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.