Portland, ME, USA
My cousin and I were having a cigarette on here porch. Happened to look up in the sky ,first we seen the orange orb. It was going towar
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-28
- Where
- Portland, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutea
- Geo
- 43.657, -70.259 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-me-2014-e55e44
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
- Portland, ME has 40 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 52 reports from Maine.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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