CaseFlash2009

Farmingdale, ME, USA

bright lights above us that lit up the night sky with no noise from the object

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-14
Where
Farmingdale, ME, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 Minute
Geo
44.245, -69.771 · exact
Slug
flash-over-farmingdale-me-2009-6c0d22
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…

In context

  • Farmingdale, ME has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 42 reports from Maine.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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