CaseFormation2013

Portland, ME, USA

6 solid but U shaped objects, flying at high speed in a formation, 2 side by side in front, 2 with one behind the other, 2 in rear

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-25
Where
Portland, ME, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 minutes or less
Geo
43.657, -70.259 · exact
Slug
formation-over-portland-me-2013-918a64
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

  • This is one of 40 reports logged in Portland, ME.
  • This case is one of 81 Maine reports filed in 2013.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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