Portland, ME, USA
Bright white light hovering near Portland International Jetport. Object turns bright red and silver, then disappears within seconds.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-05-08
- Where
- Portland, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.657, -70.259 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-me-2007-d899a7
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
- One of 40 documented reports from Portland, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maine logged 28 sightings in 2007.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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