CaseFireball1990

Hallowell, ME, USA

Night turns to morning light and back again

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-11-17
Where
Hallowell, ME, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
44.286, -69.791 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hallowell-me-1990-fa8771
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hallowell, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 3 sightings in 1990.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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