UFOMYST
CaseOther2014

Portland, ME, USA

4 revolving lights in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising lights, we wonder. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-03-01
Where
Portland, ME, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
40-50 minutes
Geo
43.657, -70.259 · exact
Slug
other-over-portland-me-2014-0c0bde
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Portland, ME has 40 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 52 reports from Maine.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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