UFOMYST
CaseOval1946

South Portland, ME, USA

motionless, dark oblong, noon sky over ocean, felt Energy-Pull of Observing craft; when spotted,accelerated straight upwards fast

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1946-07-01
Where
South Portland, ME, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 seconds +/-
Geo
43.641, -70.241 · exact
Slug
oval-over-south-portland-me-1946-950d2c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1946

    The Ghost Rockets

    Scandinavia (Sweden foremost), spreading across Europe

    One year after WWII, projectile-like objects crossed Scandinavian skies, some reportedly crashing into lakes; Swedish military dredging found nothing. With Soviet-occupied Peenemünde nearby, the assumption was Russian…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in South Portland, ME.
  • This case is one of 1 Maine reports filed in 1946.
  • Oval craft made up 4.5% of 1940s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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