CaseChanging2016

Old Orchard Beach, ME, USA

Saw a yellowish craft that turned into a disc over the beach in night sky in Old Orchard Beach, ME.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-01
Where
Old Orchard Beach, ME, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
43.517, -70.378 · exact
Slug
changing-over-old-orchard-beach-me-2016-739f07
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

  • Old Orchard Beach, ME has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 69 reports from Maine.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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