Scarborough, ME, USA
5 bright orange lights moving through sky from due East to due North; disappeared in sequence
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-19
- Where
- Scarborough, ME, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 9 minutes
- Geo
- 43.578, -70.322 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-scarborough-me-2012-23b8b9
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Scarborough, ME reports filed in April 2012.
In context
- Scarborough, ME shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 103 reports came from Maine in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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