CaseLight2009

Lyman, ME, USA

Two lights ran across the sky, as bright as the North star but twice as fast as any sattelite.((NUFORC Note: ISS & Space Shuttle. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-09
Where
Lyman, ME, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 mins
Geo
34.948, -82.127 · fallback
Slug
light-over-lyman-me-2009-a33b60
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

  • Lyman, ME shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 42 reports came from Maine in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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