CaseSphere2009

Waterville, ME, USA

we both could not believer what we saw

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-19
Where
Waterville, ME, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
44.552, -69.632 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-waterville-me-2009-82150b
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…

In context

  • Waterville, ME has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 42 reports from Maine.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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