Cumberland, ME, USA
Row of 10 or more vertical white flashing lights with red light at bottom, then vanished.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-28
- Where
- Cumberland, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.967, -71.433 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-cumberland-me-2015-153af6
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
- Cumberland, ME shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Maine in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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