Old orchard beach, ME, USA
6 slow moving balls of light disappear into a cloud
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-16
- Where
- Old orchard beach, ME, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 43.517, -70.378 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-old-orchard-beach-me-2011-40b0f8
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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
- Old orchard beach, ME shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from Maine in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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