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
Part of a wave
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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