CaseCigar2016

E. Parsonsfield, ME, USA

((HOAX??)) 2 objects, 1 above the tree line just sitting still, occasionally moving up and down, right to left. ((anonymous))

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-04-17
Where
E. Parsonsfield, ME, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
43.733, -70.843 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-e-parsonsfield-me-2016-743b0e
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from E. Parsonsfield, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 69 sightings in 2016.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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