CaseFireball2013

Houlton, ME, USA

I was with my mother in the backyard when my brother pulled in the yard he yelled to us. We ran out front and coming from the SW to NE

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-21
Where
Houlton, ME, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
46.126, -67.840 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-houlton-me-2013-507a33
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 4 reports logged in Houlton, 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.

Report

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