Presque Isle, ME, USA
Huge fireball emitting a white light that lit up the entire sky, falling at amazing speeds then dissapearing.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-28
- Where
- Presque Isle, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 Minutes Or Less
- Geo
- 46.681, -68.016 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-presque-isle-me-2008-94f4ea
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 6 reports logged in Presque Isle, ME.
- This case is one of 28 Maine reports filed in 2008.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% 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.