Maine UFO Sightings in 2023

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A growing, lengthening shaft of light, that appeared to be going up in the sky (as opposed to the way a meteor moves). Husband and wife out walking the dog at 6:24pm on 12/19/23. Avid skywatchers, we were looking up at the clear sky, when we spotted a smallish light in the western sky that looked “different”.

We watched it lengthen - to give an idea of its width, from our perspective, it looked like a short pencil line. It looked almost like an ASCENDING fireball - definitely going up, not down! It appeared to be at the same altitude as planes flying overhead - 30,000 - 40,000 feet. Both have experience as trained observers, and after decades of sky watching, have not seen anything like this before.

Checked flight app on phone, nothing. Checked with Starlink launches, etc., and that didn’t appear to fit either, although there was a Starlink launch the night before, in Cape Canaveral (2000 miles south of us).

Having seen Starlink in the past, it looked nothing like that to us. AND, Starlink didn’t just “disappear” the way this one did. Unfortunately, being nighttime, the video doesn’t give a good perspective for the viewer to judge distance, altitude, etc.

The surrounding land is wooded and sparsely populated. After zooming in a few seconds into the video, we attempted to keep the camera as steady as possible, to show the movement of the object. (We are including the second video, attempting to photograph the object disappearing.

It shows up on the phone, not so much when it’s translated to this computer.). Its trajectory was “straight up”, or appeared to be, from where we were standing (on a mountain in the midcoast region of Maine).

After observing for about 1-1.5 minutes, the object seemed to “fade out” and disappear. There was very slight cloudiness here and there in the sky, however, if this object had gone behind a cloud, it theoretically would have emerged at some point.

We stood outside for several minutes after the sighting, until it was apparent that it was not going to reemerge.

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Spotted a Craft this morning. Some sort of craft came close to where I was in Albion, Maine today. It came down just 150 to 200 meters above some nearby trees and it was using some sort of cloaking tech because it was using all of the surrounding colors to shield its appearance and I could taste a metalic taste and I could feel a tingling in my stomach and the craft did not seem to make any sound that I could hear but the birds and animals all around were not making any sound at all for the minute or so before and after this thing came through here.

I kept waiting in expectation of a logical explanation. None came. I believe there's something besides us now.

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Glowing bluish white light M&M shaped object ~1 mile above Maine Was in hot tub, facing North, looking skyward. Low haze, but not super overcast, sky was mostly clear/normal. My wife was with me but not facing in direction to see it.

Object was not there, sky was empty, then object - it was the shape (and at arms length, the size) of an M&M - appeared - fully lit - in sky at ~45 deg. The weird part was it was already moving at significant speed when it appeared. Also appeared to be fully unwaveringly illuminated the whole time with no trails or dissapation.

Traveled ~15 inches across the sky in ~2 seconds, from East to West at a downward trajectory. It looked like it was a mile or so away. Disappeared just as quickly.

Did not appear to fizzle out, just disappeared. I have seen hundreds of shooting stars, it was NOT a shooting star. It was of a size that if it was an object, it was large enough to be seen on radar.

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Witnessed approximately 20 bright white lights in a diagonal line across the sky shift to be vertical and then one at a time disappear While driving I witnessed approximately 20 bright white lights in a diagonal line (at about a 45 degree angle) across the sky. They appeared to be about as high as an airplane would fly. Maybe higher.

They looked like bright stars (white lights) but much closer than stars. They were equally spaced apart. I pulled over to watch them and they began to slowly move (maintaining their equal distance apart from each other) from their diagonal line into a straight vertical line.

The top light then started to move a little bit away from the others straight off the top of the line and then all of a sudden it shot off and away from the others. Then the next light would do the same. When they shot off it was so fast that it looked like a shooting star and disappeared.

Each one of the lights followed suit until they were all gone.

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Floating rectangle with 3 lights Last night, I had a wtf moment, still not sure what to make of it. I have never seen anything I could not identify before. I've been outside day and night my whole life, never seen anything strange.

On my way home from Portland around 630pm or so, I was about halfway home and south of Windham a few miles, on a dark two lane road through rolling small hills, no shoulder, forest on each side with sometimes trees hanging over the road. In a break of the trees, out my front windshield at about my 1 o'clock and above the tree tops, I saw a vertical object just floating in the sky (it was not moving) about 1k ft in the air, maybe a little lower. It was hard to tell how far away it was from me but probably less than 1/4 mile.

Because it was hard to tell how far away it was it’s hard to tell how big it was but im guessing it was between the size of a Chevy Suburban and a city bus, maybe bigger if it was standing on its end. It was backlit at the top like there was a light behind it and then facing me were 3 lights in a vertical row and I believe they dimmed and brightened in sequence. Because of the light behind it I could see the outline of it so i could tell it was an elongated rectangle.

It happened fast, I couldn’t stop and take a photo, by the time it registered in my mind I was under the tree canopy again and a hundred feet or so down the road and I also thought I may see it again but there were too many trees. There are no radio towers out here and it def wasn’t a balloon, a plane, a helicopter or a drone.

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White light emitted it was small it was fast and left no chem trail and it had disappeared I was outside with my mom in Biddeford Maine located in York county looking at the sky and stars when at 9:58PM I saw a circular object that was still then I saw it move and zip across the sky which didn’t have any sound or leave a chem trail and I saw it get close to another circular object and it had completely disappeared after it got close to the other circular object which I’m sure was another ufo.

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star like but not myself and my fiancée were out watching the stars . it was a clear evening with multiple satellites and aircraft going over. Being from the UK im used to light pollution so this was very special - no light pollution at all! my attention was drawn to what at first appeared to be a satellite - it was about 30 degrees above the horizon and was brighter than previous satellites.

It was traveling from the NW towards the North at a 'normal' satellite speed. However - it was bouncing / jumping up and down. I would describe it as having a similar appearance to a trace from an ECG monitor.

I asked my fiancée if she was seeing the same as me and she confirmed that she was. i know what a satellite looks like - i know what starlink looks like. I work at an airport and am familiar with all known aircraft.

I have no idea what this was.

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Have seen one around 15 times and on the 20th I recorded two different ones We have seen an object around 15 times, which hovers in a figure 8 and move closer and further for months. On the 20th of September at around 4 am, I took a video of it. And there was also to the right of it miles away I saw one blinking red and green.

Of course you think plane but i took a video of this on a clear clear day, over a field. The first one moves alot and the second one disappears and moves. It's a need to watch.

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what did I just capture ? while I was listening to my song soul buzzin , something told me to stop and record this heat lightning , then when I was going to stop I see this yellow stream of light shoot 2 feet away from me and even makes a sound vanish 20 feet in front of me about 8 feet off ground.

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2 adult men saw 2 bright objects, each appearing similar to but larger than full moon Looking to the north from parking lot, at about 45 degree angle inclination off horizon, two large moonlike bright round objects, same color and shape as full moon but larger, about the same brigthtness as full moon on a clear night, were seen blinking at each other at same altitude. (Objects separated by apparent distance of 5 in.as measured between thumb and forefinger at arm's length).

Estimated distance several miles? Not sure. The two objects did not appear to be connected but seemed to be blinking to one another possibly in communication or coordinated somehow. One witness was frightened and went indoors immediately after seeing the objects.

The other witness watched the objects for several minutes. A separate object was seen in the sky during this sighting, it was a LifeFlight helicopter according to the witness who had stayed to watch. After the LifeFlight helicopter left the area toward the west, the two large round blinking objects soon blinked out and did not reappear.

There was no sound associated with the blinking large objects although the LifeFlight helicopter had made normal helicopter sounds. Moon was not in the sky at time of sighting, had set around 3 pm and was due to rise after 11 pm. Witness is 62 years of age, does not drink alcohol.

He did not have his glasses with him, but could see the round objects quite easily because of their brightness and large round shape. He thought it appeared like "two full moons" even though he knew it was not that, and even though the moon would have been in the southern sky so he knew that was impossible. He doesn't believe he had any problem of "double vision.

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Caught the object in the photo without seeing it Pro-Photographer that enjoys taking pics of the sky and cloud formations. I saw a "Mask" and took a pic. I did it again just to have 2.

No one was with me at the time. I didn't see the object myself, until I put them on the laptop. First pic it is there and it is gone in the second pic.

Visiting in Kittery Maine when they were taken.

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The craft made no noise and disappeared after we looked away. The craft was first noticed by one of the people I was with. We had driven to a state park I forgot the name of.

It was something along the lines of “fairy beach” or “fairy road”. “Fairy beach” could have been the name of the beach we were on when we saw it. When I first saw it I thought it was a plane or a kite or maybe a balloon, however, it wasn’t making any noise and it was rotating the opposite direction of me and to my 11 o’clock (end over end and side over side), aka front left.

It was rotating quite slowly and it was a shiny silver chrome color. Light seemed to be reflecting off of it but the light didn’t extend beyond the border of the object itself. The light was constant without even a slight flicker or pulse.

I looked away to ask if someone could take a picture of it and when I did it caused them to look away too. We didn’t get a picture because one of their phones had died and the other had a broken camera. That, I believe, is why none of us saw it disappear until it was gone which I pointed out to the others.

The entire time the craft made no noise and I trust that we wouldn’t have seen it if one of the others hadn’t looked that direction for 30 seconds longer. I don’t think it could have been much more than one thousand feet in the air.

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20+ Objects were single file at about 10 degrees going UP Went to the ocean to see this blue moon and my daughter was photographing it and as i sat there i was looking around to the north and see the dipper and said hey thats the big dipper that she didnt know of as i explained that its always in the north THEN we see objects coming up single file slowly as fast as a plane would go then disappear after 1 minute each in veiw all in single there was a tree in the way from where we were but we could see them about the same place as the bottom left of the dipper star.I SAID QUICK GET THEM ON YOUR CAMERA OR PHONE,,after fumbling around decided to just get them and used the phone to record.Then there was a guy that was walking that just got done fishing said wow what was that.

weird.yea i think my daughter got them on her phone.i got his name and where he was from but dam cant re it either daughter or me.

WE HAVE VIDEO.

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Glowing and moved up but not side to side - thought it may be a hot air balloon but didn’t look like one and was too high and night time Saw circular object glowing a few thousand feet above our house. Grabbed my telephoto lense and shot the attached picture. Object continued to rise.

To the naked eye I thought it may be a hot air balloon, but it was extremely high and it was getting dark out. Once I took the picture, I was able to zoom in and see that it didn’t resemble a hot air balloon. After about 20 minutes it was too high to see.

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Orb hovering above the moon, slow descent straight down, hovered, then disappeared Large enough to look like a planet, we saw an orb hovering above and slightly to the right of the moon. Seemed ‘normal’ for a couple minutes until it started a steady descent straight down, halfway to the horizon line. It then stopped, hovered, in one place, reducing size for about 30 seconds before it disappeared.

No visible trail. No wavering. Movement seemed direct and with intent.

Very odd indeed.

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Hovered and moved The craft had a bright white light I thought it was a star when I looked out the window of my door but noticed it was way to close it did not make a sound but as it flew over my house it made a turn to go parallel to my home as it passed over my property and flashing lights on both side flying very low to the ground close enough to make out the bottom of it where there where less bright lights around the object. As I said it did not make a sound if it was a plan you would here the engines that low to the ground or a helicopter would have been loud but it could have been a stealth helicopter military grade but why would they be observing me. They hovered for 2 minutes just above the tree tops looking straight at me and when I went to the window it took off in about a minute and a half flew straight at me turning to avoid my home.

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high in the sky traveling east to south a silvery object moving rapidly in trying to compare high flying jets with visible wings 40,000 feet?more?no wings or tail or jetstream,exhaust.

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I observed a light traveling in elliptical and straight formation I got up early in hopes to see the meteor shower. It was a clear night partial moon. I didn't see any meteors, but saw a couple satellites and 2 jets passing over.

When I spotted what I thought was another moving satelite, it did a u turn and did several elipses. Occasialy it would move back and forth. It didn't move out of perhaps I'm guessing a 1/4 to 1/2 a degree.

It was the same brightness and size as the satellites I observed earlier. I judged the speed of its movement to be approximately as that of the other satellites. I observed this for about 30 minutes.

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A square light in the sky, which disappeared, reappeared, and disappeared. I was watching the demolition derby at the Union Fair, when I noticed a light in the sky out of the corner of my eye. I looked up and saw an apparently silent square (though it was more of what Google tells me is a squircle) of bright white light moving slowly across the sky.

I glanced back to the derby, and then looked up again. The object was gone, but then reappeared. I looked back at the derby again, and when I checked again, the object was gone.

I looked back, observing the sky but it was gone. Throughout the remainder of the demolition derby, I'd look back up, but I never saw it again.

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At campground bright white disk tipped on its side and was moving slow for a few s Sitting in an open field area at campground. Bright white disk above us flew around and hovered for a few minutes, it then tipped on its side and flew off and disappeared. It had a mist like look to it on the bottom and on top it had looked like a layer or two on its top.

It made a swishing sound and low vibration in the air around it.