Shapleigh, ME, USA
On 11/14/14 at approx. 10:30 pm from my window facing E, I noticed a bright light, similar to a fireball, darting back and forth.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-14
- Where
- Shapleigh, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 11:15
- Geo
- 43.541, -70.848 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-shapleigh-me-2014-ebd19b
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 4 reports logged in Shapleigh, ME.
- This case is one of 52 Maine reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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