CaseRectangle1971
Orono, ME, USA
Witnesses in Orono, Maine reported a rectangular object about 30 to 40 feet long with sharply defined corners, glowing red from within while hovering, for over five minutes in September 1971.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-09-01
- Where
- Orono, ME, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5+ minutes
- Geo
- 44.883, -68.672 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-orono-me-1971-5fcc26
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In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Orono, ME.
- This case is one of 2 Maine reports filed in 1971.
- Rectangle craft made up 2.3% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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