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
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
- 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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