UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2008

Augusta, ME, USA

I saw a UFO

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (11 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-23
Where
Augusta, ME, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
12 minutes
Geo
44.311, -69.779 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-augusta-me-2008-be6397
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

  • Augusta, ME shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 28 reports came from Maine in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

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.