CaseLight2016

Waterville, ME, USA

Green light streaks through the night sky in Maine

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-16
Where
Waterville, ME, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
44.552, -69.632 · exact
Slug
light-over-waterville-me-2016-7da384
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

  • Waterville, ME shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 69 reports came from Maine in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.