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
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
- 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 daysReport
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