CaseUnknown2017

West Gardiner, ME, USA

Loud unidentified boom that shook houses and was heard in at least 8 towns at the same time. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low39/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-09
Where
West Gardiner, ME, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Seconds
Geo
Slug
unknown-over-west-gardiner-me-2017-3b0545
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in West Gardiner, ME.
  • This case is one of 36 Maine reports filed in 2017.

Report

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