CaseFireball1981
Lisbon Falls, ME, USA
Sphere covered by a blueish flame, traveling north to south, 500 to 700 kts at an altitude around 1500 ft AGL.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-07-08
- Where
- Lisbon Falls, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.996, -70.061 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lisbon-falls-me-1981-414a76
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Lisbon Falls, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maine logged 1 sightings in 1981.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.8% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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