UFOMYST
CaseFormation2008

Gardiner (near), ME, USA

Hovering object with odd light formation- UFO or blimp

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 (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-15
Where
Gardiner (near), ME, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
44.230, -69.775 · exact
Slug
formation-over-gardiner-near-me-2008-7ed0d7
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 Gardiner (near), ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 28 sightings in 2008.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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