UFOMYST
CaseFlash2009

Sorento (near), ME, USA

I was at Calf Island in Frenchman's Bay, Maine with my mom camping when we saw a possible UFO. It was a strobing red light that didn't

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-15
Where
Sorento (near), ME, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
less than five min
Geo
38.999, -89.574 · fallback
Slug
flash-over-sorento-near-me-2009-a2df24
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Sorento (near), ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 42 sightings in 2009.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

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