CaseDiamond2017
Orono, ME, USA
Diamond shape.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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 (14 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-23
- Where
- Orono, ME, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 44.883, -68.672 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-orono-me-2017-9c17ff
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 5 reports logged in Orono, ME.
- This case is one of 36 Maine reports filed in 2017.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% 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.