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Maine UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 76 UFO sighting reports in Maine from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (28 reports, 36.84% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 19.74% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 21.05% of total).
- 04/25/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 3.95% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (40 reports, 52.63% of total).
Maine UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Maine UFO reports from 2020, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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UFO In My Backyard On New Year’s Eve This was the most incredible thing I ever saw. It was like something right out of a movie. I would have tried to capture it on video, but I really thought it was just a small car, or a couple of snowmobiles, until it took off, and by then it was too late, because it took off too fast.
I live next to a school, which is now closed and abandoned. On one side of the school is a baseball field and a soccer field. The soccer field is behind the baseball field, and it is surrounded by bushes and trees.
There is a small hill beyond this area, which leads to where I live. When I look out my kitchen window, I can see part of the baseball field, as well as some of the bushes and trees which surround the soccer field. So what happened was I was eating supper at my kitchen table and glancing out my kitchen window every so often while I ate, which is what I usually do.
It was completely dark outside and the light I was eating by in the kitchen was only very dim. I usually like to eat eat in semi-darkness like this. Well, I was about halfway through my meal when I noticed three dim lights out my window- two white lights and one red light.
The lights were lined up in a row, which seemed to be curved slightly. I judged the distance of the object(or objects) to be right about between the baseball field and the soccer field, right behind some of the bushes and trees. At first I didn’t think much of it because I figured it was either a small car or a couple of snowmobiles, even though I didn’t see any exhaust and I didn’t hear any sound.
Anyway, the object just sat there in front of me, without moving, for about 35 minutes. I finished eating, all the while keeping an eye on it. When I was finished eating, I decided to sit and watch it for awhile, to see what would happen, to see where it would go.
And I was still almost completely convinced it was just a small car, or a couple of snowmobiles, even though I thought it was a strange place for someone to be parking- especially considering that the school has been closed and abandoned for quite a long time now. It didn’t take long for things to start getting both weird and fascinating. As I was sitting there in the semi-darkness staring at it, suddenly one of the white lights got really bright, like a really bright flashlight.
Then the light started to rotate! Shortly after that, the object began moving along the ground towards the bushes, and, therefore, closer to me. When it reached the bushes, the entire middlle area lit up with bright white light and started to rotate! Even though it never went completely through the trees to the building where I lived, it came close enough to me so that I thought I saw windows! The windows were all lit up with bright white light, and they were rotating about the middle! It continued moving slowly along the trees like this, still without making any sound, and without giving off any exhaust! I could even see the light reflecting off the trees! Well, eventually, after about thirty seconds or so, it reached the end of the soccer field. At that point I expected to see it fly off into the sky, but instead the weirdness continued.
Instead of flying off into the sky, it appeared to fly right into the trees, but without disturbing the trees at all, except for reflecting bright white light off them. Then the light went out and it disappeared! It seemed to just wink out of existence! Then it was gone. And everything was completely dark again.
It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life- and I’m a 49-year-old disabled male. I’ve actually been wishing that it would return and make a repeat performance, if for no other reason than so I could capture it on video.
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Bright changing objects hovering over Searsport’s bay making dipping motions and then we noticed a three lighted object very very high up and moved side to side and odd movements some I was able to get on vid and photos which also show this object had a ring of lights aluminating around a hexagon shaped object meny colors definitely in our atmosphere.
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Pulsating Circular Light in sky off Southern Maine Coast I was on my porch looking out over York Harbor/Beach when I noticed a light blinking in the sky far above the horizontal line where the ocean meets the sky, visionally speaking. It looked like a star but was apparently in atmosphere and seemed to be pulsating. I watched from inside the house as it was cold but collected a few minutes of footage.
It moved in a vertical motion slightly but remained in that vicinity for near an hr. It seemed like a giant drone from the way it was hovering and by size as it was like looking at a plane and knowing it’s proximity to you is much further than just a couple hundred yards. It was possibly the strangest thing I’ve witnessed in my life.
I’ve shown others the videos and they are just as baffled.
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I’ve seen drones fly in a night sky these things were so visible they were very noticeable I was driving to Sanford Maine when I seen 8 diamond shaped lights flashing forming some kind of line one started to get brighter as it disappeared then they all disappeared without movement. More like a fade away. Closer than the stars.
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Triangular shaped craft with bright flashing lights moving slowly then stopping overhead. While doing yard work with my neighbor, I heard a small aircraft passing overhead. Out of curiosity I looked up and saw the single engine plane.
Then I noticed some extremely bright lights flashing just below some black storm clouds. I looked more closely and could make out a rectangular shape moving Southwest very slowly then just came to a stop. I called to my neighbor and asked her to look up and tell me what she saw.
She said, “what is that?” We watched it for about ten minutes, just sitting there in one spot, not moving and very bright lights flashing from all three points of its shape. It then started moving slowly to the Northeast and went into the heavy black clouds.
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2 very fast circular crafts moving impossibly fast followed by 3 helicopters at much lower speed. 2 circular craft moving at a very high speed within a few miles of each other in the sky at the same time, one was much larger or closer to this witness when was smaller, the smaller one had multiple colored lights that it was cycling through. Both did not have flashing lights they were continuous lights.
After the sighting there were three helicopters in the sky moving towards the direction of The crafts. There was no sound until the helicopters arrived. This is over a retired Navy military base.
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Is this a UFO or the government I was having a hard night with sleeping so I went outside in my yard an walked around. I noticed it getting brighter so it mad me look up at the moon. When I looked up it was bright like super bright an it wasn’t a full moon night An for a mint I thought the moon was moving.
it looked like it was getting close an backing up a few times I thought I saw this. So I continued to look up at it an follow it in the sky. I watched an watched an became really interested with it I felt that this thing was unusual.
So I pulled out my phone and started to take a video. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was bright big had about 3 or so sides it looked maybe it looked like it was also turning an at one point well it started lighting up one one side than another an another.
One of the times it was light up I saw a vehicle go by me on the road an well I thought I saw it flash almost like Something took a picture like a flash of light. A day later I sat here an played ! that video wondering if I had indeed seen what I thought I had. Just put it this way when I got to the video we’re the Vehicle was driving by I DID INDEED caught an unbelievable thing I slow mode the time in my video an that thing in the sky well it flashed a light right down on that vehicle an a ray of a green light.
I couldn’t believe this I always wondered but is it a UFO. or is it the government???.
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Looking up to the east.I saw a bright pink light shoot down and then sharply shoot straight up and disappeared. I thought it was a weird shooting star but it was so bright and then went up like the right side of the letter v.
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Bright triangle shape, no flashing or colored lights. Saw it approaching from the south headed northeast. No sound.
Some zig zag right to left, went over my property then went up until out of sight. My dog pointed but no other reaction.
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Bright Light UFO spotted in Prospect, Maine My Son & I were outside listening to an owl when I saw this very bright, what I first thought to be a star, come out of no where and quickly travel across the sky. It then suddenly disappeared into the milky way. I tried taking pictures with my cell phone and normally I cant with any other stars because they're not bright enough or too far away but I did with this.
Also, when I took a picture of it; when I zoomed in,it made this huge hazy image appear on my camera & I couldnt take a picture until it had passed overhead. My phone has never done that when taking pictures. It also was not a shooting star.
My Son and I have seen other strange things while laying outside looking up at stars but this by far gave me goosebumps and I knew it wasnt anything other than a UFO.
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Lights that turned into a white cloud I was on my balcony that over looks the ocean on two separate occasions dating 08/30/2020 at 20:55 and 09/11/2020 at 22:01 I recorded both sightings. The first in August, I saw lights that were visible for a minute or two, I yelled to my son to come see if I was losing my mind. I began to record and then the lights turned into a white cloud that was floating through the sky, and just vanished.
The next sighting was not long after on September 11 2020 I saw a weird light in the sky which again called my son to witness and also recorded The second sighting last much longer then the first and was different it’s hard to explain but I was able to catch both on video.
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My wife and went to have a nice relaxing night on a Sunday night just got dark and laying on beach watching stars and talking and I grabbed my spot light with led high power continues straight beam and pointed it around sky to say things like there’s Jupiter or whatever and around hour later we just watched stars no spotlight or anything and right above us a star , or thought was one just moved so fast completely blended in like a star and went north almost out of view and back to above us and then got erratic like mad dog or something would do flyin in circles fast and jumping around , my wife said yep I see it and it’s time to go now I talked to her when home and see said she heard loud noises before we left like power or something and I also was uncomfortable feeling like I was surrounded ! Went home about 10 minutes ride and we couldn’t relax after talking about this sighting and finally went to bed and around 2am dog jumped up freaked out barking “ f! irst time ever “ on my bed and blew door open to go out to living room! Cat was on edge also . I loaded my side piece went out to living room and animals staring out to front porch screen room , I heard loud banging and door slam and that was it for night !! I know it wasn’t a animal my dog and cat seen many skunks and critters on porch ! Whatever I see or I got it’s attention it was scary ! If u wana see a ufo / something amazing In sky at night go to ocean to see as far as u can and wait with a spotlight u will see something !! I’ve had many close encounters with ufos and my father and stepdad also ! ! It’s nothing to play around with ,.
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Total invasion in home town by Extra dimensional entities that torment me and my family night and day. Since the begging of September and we’ll before that I have been seeing weird lights in the sky either with my eyes, telescope, night vision camera or binoculars. As the time went on at dusk every night I’d see star like objects start to move around.
After I’d realized that something was going on things began to get really weird. I have hundreds of videos of them and their ships materialize an dematerialize right in front of me. I began telling my girlfriend about what was going on and until I showed her and what to look for she didn’t believe me.
I don’t know if I was given the sight to see in their dimension, if it’s temporary or not but I can sometimes see into their world and what there doing. To some might see an orb I can see an entire ship or entity. Ever since I have taken notice to their ships during the day camouflaged I’m the clouds because of a certain energy signature that I have learned to pick up on that they all give off.
They now have taken ! notice of me and are tormenting me daily and it during the night. They come into the house unannounced to scare me and because if this me and my family are losing sleep To most they are invisible depending on how much of their essence are in our dimension. They can be in our reality and theirs simultaneously, and I can hear them in my head now and I’m real uneasy about what is about to happen because I cannot get away from them and when you can see what I can see and how big their ships are and how many their is up there then it’s hard to keep going in life with this threat right up above us.
I will be outside and you can see all the stars on a clear night and all of a sudden it will be black. Like blacker then you have ever seen to the point you can barley see your hand in front of your face and all I can hear is the humming of their ship up above me. I tell everyone that I have talked to about this to come over if they don’t believe me and bring a camera I’ll show you ! all you want to see on ufos.
I have never seen one before now ! and I am worried that an invasion is about to happen and when they can walk through locked doors mimic helicopters and airplanes I feel like there’s not a lot we can do about it and they give me the impression that they don’t have our best intentions in mind.
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Small Circular Orange in color moving up, down, left, right switching between slow and quickly actions. Object is orange is round like a star but much bigger and is moving up down left and right and all those other directions in a small pattern sometimes zipping up and down but stays within a certain perimeter and constantly changes direction and speed but all within a small area, have multiple videos unfortunately they’re not very clear. This is not the first time a UFO has been spotted at our property on branch lake, this is the only sighting caught on video, I would like to upload my videos.
They are around 1min30sec taken on a IPhone 10. Has also appeared to stop and stay stationary for a few moments then starts moving around again. Videos and pictures DONOT give this sighting any justice but it is without doubt a UFO.
I would like to send you my videos and would like to know where to send them???.
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Bright orange circle move from East to west over ocean then disappeared west Bright orange light.
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Large craft, many flashing red lights. I saw large red flashing lights in the sky heading away from me at a slow rate of speed.I pulled my tuck over and watched it slowly go away from me with a slight turn to the left.
Whatever it was it was large Much bigger than I would expect from a plane and the flashing red lights were large also. I could not tell the shape as it was going straight away from me but there was a row of flashing red lights with at least 1 that seemed more out front. I would like to know if anything like this has been reported.
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me and my girl walked to the store and as we were on our way home I noticed a bright small orb of light making abnormal movements .I pulled out my galaxy s20 ultra to zoom in to get a better look and this thing kept changing size and shapes. I got plenty of video.
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Two ufo lights in Beddington Maine Myself, fiancé and our two children ages 7 and 10 were out on a night time 4 wheeler ride. We were at our camp on Beddington Lake and like to ride out to the blueberry fields to star gaze. We noticed a light that looked like maybe a star in the sky to our north zig zagging around.
It looked to be over the area of Mopang Lake, north of route 9 in Beddington. It moved up and down, left to right at pretty fast speeds. It was able to change opposite directions at max speed.
It would move north eventually disappearing from sight, only to come back a few minutes later. The family was terrified and wanted to go back to the camp but I insisted on staying to watch. After about 15 minutes of observing, my fiancé and son announced seeing another object to the East.
It was a little bigger which I think means it was probably closer. It also appeared to have an orangish color to it. It too would zig zag around almost as if it were surveying an area.
Both objects eventuall! y moved off in the distance. Also during this sighting a large and intense white flash was seen in the sky above us.
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Bright flash followed by three blinks then disappeared Took place between RAS ALHAGUE and RAS ALGETHI. Bright white flash followed by three smaller lights moving in the shape of a U rather than a straight path like a plane, then disappeared.
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Camping on Moosehead Lake in a remote cabin with family. We were just getting ready to put out the campfire when myself (teacher) and cousin (police officer) saw a very bright sphere in the sky with two verticle beams above the treeline. Just seconds after it appeared it disappeared with a huge bright flash (no sound) that illuminated the entire lake.
All animals went quiet until the flash was over.
Maine UFO Sightings From 2020 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 28 reported sightings | 36.84% of all reports |
Circle | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
Changing | 5 reported sightings | 6.58% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Maine UFO Sightings From 2020 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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August | 15 reported sightings | 19.74% of all reports |
March | 13 reported sightings | 17.11% of all reports |
February | 9 reported sightings | 11.84% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
April | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
September | 7 reported sightings | 9.21% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
December | 4 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Maine UFO Sightings From 2020 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 16 reported sightings | 21.05% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Wednesday | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 14.47% of all reports |
Tuesday | 10 reported sightings | 13.16% of all reports |
Monday | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Sunday | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Maine UFO Sightings From 2020 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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04/25/20 | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
09/18/20 | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
07/18/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
03/31/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
04/14/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
Maine UFO Sightings From 2020 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 40 reported sightings | 52.63% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 22.37% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 8 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 6 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 2.63% of all reports |
All Maine Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Maine, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Maine
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Maine.