UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Gardiner, ME, USA

Saw Disk-like object above trees. Hovering then doing a oval orbit. Watch for about 10-15 minutes. Disapeared behind tree line.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-15
Where
Gardiner, ME, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
44.230, -69.775 · exact
Slug
disk-over-gardiner-me-1997-c4d278
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Gardiner, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 10 sightings in 1997.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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