Maine UFO Sightings in 1973

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bronze, bright, silent light moves south to east over a lake in Maine. I was playing hide and seek in the evening with cousins visiting from California and went and sat down by our lake (Three Mile Pond, facing south) in a lawn chair. While there, I noticed a bright light that had a bronze tinge on the horizon across the lake.

First I didn't think anything about it, but then I noticed it was rising up off the horizon, and was moving. I began to watch it. It was totally silent, it rose high up then seemed to move across the lake high overhead.

At the largest, it was about the size of my thumbnail at arm's length in the sky. I watched it until it went toward the eastern side of the lake where there was a full moon on the rise just over the tree tops. The light from the moon was so bright I lost sight of it.

I told a friend of mine the next day and she said it had to be a weather balloon, but I had never seen one before or after that. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Summary : A VERY fast light point object that was viewed for about 10 Seconds. I was standing topside watch aboard the USS Will Rogers (SSBN 659) with another petty officer named Duncan (can't remember last name). We witnessed a VERY fast brilliant object moving across the sky behind the lights of Portsmouth, NH and head out to sea (the Atlantic).

Within two or three minutes after the sighting, we witnessed a flight of four F-15's take off from Pease AFB on full AB. They proceeded in the same direction of the object. Thinking this was significant, we made a note in the topside log and notified Pease AFB operations that we could confirm the sighting.

The next morning the ship's XO called us in and told us in no uncertain terms that we were not to play games with the Air Force and were then ordered to ammend our logbook entry. We were used to seeing F-15's take off from Pease during day and night. The object was many times faster than an F-15.

It also did not in any way fit the profile of an F-15's afterburners. All we saw was a point of light moving very fast out to sea. This incident has remained a question in my mind because of the reverberations it caused in the Navy and Air Force chains of command.

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Brilliant, white, perfectly round objects, jetting back and forth, up and down, in night skies. Round, bright, white, objects, jetting sporadically back and forth, up and down, in the night skies. Several Brilliant white round objects, jetting off at extreme speeds and reappearing, as if they were playing tag.

While on an East coast car vacation, nearing Bar Harbor, Maine, friend and I had pulled over in a National forest parking area to get some sleep after driving on the road for several hours. Ready for some sleep, laying down in front and back seats of a Plymouth Duster, looking out the car windows, we were watching these objects playing tag in the sky. We suddenly were energized enough to drive on to Bar Harbor, near civilization.

((NUFORC Note: Source indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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dark circle dim lights from above showed shape stopped in it's path when we spotted it took 90% turn quick stopped turned parrellel took off fast seconds later 2nd zoomed past ridiculed by local paper round black circle night sky illuminated only by dim light around it. Flying high in night sky,no noise,going slow,I now believe it was observing us playing in snow[sliding].As we seen it ,it stopped dead in it's tracks took quick 90% turn sped quick stopped dead again took off very fast parallel to origional flight path seconds later 2nd craft sped by seemingly in original path of first.

We hollered to other friend in house,whom called immediately local paper as if he had seen it,but truthfully he hadn't they ridiculed us in local paper describing it like an airplane[which it was not!]My brother who was one of the witnesses is now deceased but I wouldn't lie in behalf of his name,the second witness is now a civil engineer and his brother who made the call to local paper now works the pentagon. the second craft I could not say really if it was alike or maybe one of ours checking out what we seen,but at it's rate of speed I don't believe so I was in USAF,seen a lot of air shows and I believe second to be same but couldn't detect shape as for speed and height in sky.