CaseFireball2013
Bailey Island, ME, USA
((NUFORC Note: Source of report includes no data. PD))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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
- No witness text on file
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-21
- Where
- Bailey Island, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5
- Geo
- 43.728, -69.995 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bailey-island-me-2013-f15579
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 2 reports logged in Bailey Island, ME.
- This case is one of 81 Maine reports filed in 2013.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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