CaseSphere2005

Portland, ME, USA

object flys through air in Portland Maine.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-01-15
Where
Portland, ME, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
in my car
Geo
43.657, -70.259 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-portland-me-2005-9c60a7
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

  • This is one of 40 reports logged in Portland, ME.
  • This case is one of 25 Maine reports filed in 2005.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

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.