UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Winterport, ME, USA

My mother went out to the garage to put some trash away. She was gone for about 20 minutes, I decided to go check on her to make sure s

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-21
Where
Winterport, ME, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
44.638, -68.845 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-winterport-me-2009-68b237
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Winterport, ME.
  • This case is one of 42 Maine reports filed in 2009.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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