Auburn, ME, USA
Swimming at my friends pool and noticed a ring around the sun and had rainbow colors took a pic and didn't think it took so I took anot
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-17
- Where
- Auburn, ME, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 44.098, -70.231 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-auburn-me-2015-56e952
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
- Auburn, ME has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 58 reports from Maine.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.