CaseCigar2021

Stonington, ME, USA

Metallic tic tac appears hovering over the water and moves off silently on a sunny summer day

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-10
Where
Stonington, ME, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
44.156, -68.667 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-stonington-me-2021-06853e
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Stonington, ME.
  • This case is one of 32 Maine reports filed in 2021.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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