CaseLight2011

Phillips, ME, USA

Very large light moving across the sky, disappearing behind the tree line, followed by a flash of light as if something had exploded

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-25
Where
Phillips, ME, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
a few seconds
Geo
44.823, -70.340 · exact
Slug
light-over-phillips-me-2011-7fc1a2
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…

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Phillips, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 42 sightings in 2011.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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