Portland, ME, USA
Five points of light, bit brighter than stars, all moving erratically in one direction
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-31
- Where
- Portland, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.657, -70.259 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portland-me-2011-9bc201
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 42 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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