CaseFormation2021
Bowdoin, ME, USA
Very large silent Light formation moving at plane speed.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-16
- Where
- Bowdoin, ME, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 48.393, -107.606 · fallback
- Slug
- formation-over-bowdoin-me-2021-70dde3
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Bowdoin, ME has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 32 reports from Maine.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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