UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Portland, ME, USA

fireball figure in the sky.moved from one end to another.has been seen in korea and china before.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-18
Where
Portland, ME, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15 min.
Geo
43.657, -70.259 · exact
Slug
other-over-portland-me-2004-0bf1e3
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Portland, ME shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Maine in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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.