West Gardiner, ME, USA
Very bright white object moving slowly then quickly going straight up till it could be seen no longer.
Report quality: Low39/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-30
- Where
- West Gardiner, ME, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- less than a minute
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-west-gardiner-me-2006-199808
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
- West Gardiner, ME shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from Maine in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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