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
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
- 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 daysReport
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