CaseLight1998
East Machias, ME, USA
Light in sky got brighter and truck almost stalled out light flickered out.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-05
- Where
- East Machias, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 44.739, -67.390 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-east-machias-me-1998-e84bb1
In context
- East Machias, ME has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 18 reports from Maine.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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