UFOMYST
CaseOther2012

York, ME, USA

Low-flying object resembling plane on fire moving horizontally on Maine turnpike

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-08-27
Where
York, ME, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
43.171, -70.609 · exact
Slug
other-over-york-me-2012-6f083f
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…

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In context

  • York, ME shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 103 reports came from Maine in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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