UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Loring AFB, ME, USA

cigar shaped object spotted over loring air force base in maine august 1997

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 (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-16
Where
Loring AFB, ME, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 or 6 minutes
Geo
46.939, -67.894 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-loring-afb-me-1997-5138cc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Loring AFB, ME has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 10 reports from Maine.
  • The 1990s skewed 2.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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