CaseCircle2015
Sanford, ME, USA
Three red lights hovering in the sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-06-17
- Where
- Sanford, ME, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.439, -70.774 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sanford-me-2015-e80405
Wave
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
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Sanford, ME.
- This case is one of 58 Maine reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.