Sanford, ME, USA
We were having a fire and saw a very bright cone shaped light above the tree line, it stayed for a minute or so then vanished.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- Sanford, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.439, -70.774 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sanford-me-2009-c51bd8
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
- Sanford, ME has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 42 reports from Maine.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.