UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

York Beach, ME, USA

9 round, reddish lights in a long, straight row about 30 seconds apart, sighted by 7 visitors on York Beach.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-17
Where
York Beach, ME, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
43.171, -70.609 · exact
Slug
circle-over-york-beach-me-2012-947722
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 5 documented reports from York Beach, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 103 sightings in 2012.
  • 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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