CaseLight2016

Stonington, ME, USA

Slow floating white light seen over Stonington at 4:45 am that lasted about 5 secs.; disappeared after passing over tree line.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-17
Where
Stonington, ME, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-7 seconds
Geo
44.156, -68.667 · exact
Slug
light-over-stonington-me-2016-8f11de
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

  • Stonington, ME has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 69 reports from Maine.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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