CaseLight2008
Calais, VT, USA
Moving bright white light moving north to south over Calais, VT
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-05
- Where
- Calais, VT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 Minutes
- Geo
- 45.184, -67.277 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-calais-vt-2008-5b2dcc
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
- Calais, VT shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Vermont in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.