CaseLight2004

Exeter, ME, USA

Bright light came over the tree line, thought it may have been headlight on aircraft. ((anonymous report))

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-19
Where
Exeter, ME, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
36.296, -119.142 · fallback
Slug
light-over-exeter-me-2004-a3494e
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

  • Exeter, ME shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Maine in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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