CaseOval2020
West Paris, ME, USA
Oval object in the sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (22 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-31
- Where
- West Paris, ME, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 44.324, -70.574 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-west-paris-me-2020-ba252a
Wave
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in West Paris, ME.
- This case is one of 75 Maine reports filed in 2020.
- Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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