CaseOval2014

New Sharon, ME, USA

One object, very bright, white, oblong, dark spot in the center. about half the size of a typical full moon, and brighter than a typica

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-01-12
Where
New Sharon, ME, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
>60 minutes
Geo
44.639, -70.016 · exact
Slug
oval-over-new-sharon-me-2014-740566
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

  • New Sharon, ME has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 52 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.