UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Scarborough, ME, USA

Blinking light, white, red, green. Moving up and down. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-01-05
Where
Scarborough, ME, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
43.578, -70.322 · exact
Slug
circle-over-scarborough-me-2016-849d3e
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…

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In context

  • One of 21 documented reports from Scarborough, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 69 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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