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UFO sightings in Maine

There are 42 civilian UFO sighting reports from Maine in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1968 to 2013. The busiest year was 2012, with 9 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (11), sphere (11) and disc (6).

Most reports come from New Gloucester (3), Lewiston (2) and Orrington (2), out of 37 places in the state with at least one report.

By place

UFO sightings by city in Maine

Places with at least three reports. 36 other places in Maine have one or two.

The reports

Recent sighting reports from Maine

All 42 reports, newest first.

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  1. 15 Oct 2013 · 14:45BowdoinhamOther· 30 min

    One brightly blue, red white condensed light moving silently and too slowly to be a plane moving north then west.

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  2. 2 Oct 2013 · 21:55OrringtonAmorphous· 10 min

    Lights seen over Orrington.

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  3. 27 Oct 2012 · 21:00WhitingSphere· 10 min

    Four red circular lights traveling silently.

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  4. 26 Oct 2012 · 20:00WoolwichSphere· 2 min

    Bright light going across the sky then just disappeared

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  5. 26 Oct 2012 · 18:00EndfieldOrb· 2 min

    Thinking a plaine was on fire,untill it turned 90 degrees and disapated to nothing, all in 2 mins.

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  6. 23 Oct 2012 · 23:00OrringtonSphere· 1 h

    Large white bright sphere fading away and turning blue in hue, Moving in circular patterns. Repeating.

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  7. 21 Oct 2012 · 05:30TurnerSphere· 15 s

    Greyish sphere seen by 2 people in Maine.

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  8. 19 Oct 2012 · 02:00UnitySphere· 15 min

    Circular mass moving through night sky with lights around periphery 02:00 Hours In sky over Unity, Maine.

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  9. 17 Oct 2012 · 19:00MachiasOrb· 4 min

    Observed solid light heading toward the south west. Steady, non blinking, traveling in a straight line. Observed a very quick flash f

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  10. 13 Oct 2012 · 15:00Stockton SpringsSphere· 3 s

    Bright glowing sphere moving across sky at extreme speed.

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  11. 12 Oct 2012 · 19:00ShapleighAmorphous· 5 min

    UFO Chasing commercial flight in southern maine!!

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  12. 23 Oct 2010 · 20:15PortlandTriangle· 2 min

    A Metallic triangular object with dome on underside was seen in Portland, Maine.

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  13. 25 Oct 2008 · 01:27New GloucesterOther· 25 min

    Bright light; large upright being. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD))

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  14. 25 Oct 2008 · 01:00New GloucesterOrb· 30 min

    Bright flash from the woods, followed by intense heat.

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  15. 15 Oct 2008 · 19:00GardinerFormation· 2 min

    Hovering object with odd light formation- UFO or blimp

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  16. 26 Oct 2007 · 05:00OtisDisc· 45 min

    Very bright oval shaped object silently moving up and down.

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  17. 21 Oct 2007 · 19:00BucksportSphere· 20 s

    Moving sphere in the sky

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  18. 2 Oct 2007 · 21:30LubecSphere· 15 s

    Low flying bright object appeared to zigzag and hover.

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  19. 27 Oct 2006 · 19:30PittsfieldOrb· 30 s

    Was walking dog with my fiance and an airliner was passing overhead. We were looking at it and its flashing lights, which is a common s

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  20. 14 Oct 2006 · 21:30OgunquitOrb· 5 min

    Two bright lights faded over five minutes.

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  21. 13 Oct 2006 · 05:00BrewerOrb· 4 min

    fast moving aircraft aproaching a strange light.

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  22. 11 Oct 2006 · 05:40YorkDisc· 30 s

    Illuminated but not shiny disc with three large pulsing lights underside, white to red, following path along the Atlantic coastline.

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  23. 26 Oct 2004 · 18:00LewistonOrb· 2 h

    A light in the sky similiar to Haley's comet during sunset 10/26/04 Tuesday evening around 18:00 hours ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))

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  24. 24 Oct 2004 · 16:00HampdenOrb· 45 s

    bright spot of light

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  25. 18 Oct 2004 · 18:00PortlandOther· 15 min

    fireball figure in the sky.moved from one end to another.has been seen in korea and china before.

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  26. 19 Oct 2003 · 23:30MonsonTriangle· 15 min

    First of all I'm 17/M and I am a Junior at HS. I was sitting at home after the 2nd World Series game, when I was about ready to go to b

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  27. 1 Oct 2003 · 00:00SacoSphere· 2 min

    My wife and I watched a stationary bright white star much larger than a planet hover above the Ocean for about 2 minutes, and then it d

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  28. 16 Oct 2002 · 15:00Guilford/AbbotCigar· 2 min

    My mom and I observed silverish-grayish object above Piscatiquis River in Abbot

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  29. 1 Oct 2001 · 20:35GreeneDisc· 10 s

    Incandescent light-greenish Orb with Red Halo spotted in sky over Northern woods..................

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  30. 15 Oct 1999 · 08:00FairfieldOrb· 30 min

    spotted light moving through the sky at high rate of speed. Thought to be a plane or helicopter but too fast for helicopter and han on

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  31. 20 Oct 1998 · 02:00LewistonFormation· 20 min

    While gazing up at the stars, you had to look carefully but I noticed a formation yet more a bunch of single lighted objects. They were

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  32. 11 Oct 1998 · 22:40Bar HarborSphere· 30 s

    My friend Steven and I were crossing over to Bar Island at low tide when we witnesses a green spherical object crossing the sky at a gr

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  33. 15 Oct 1990 · 03:00North WindhamOrb· 7 min

    It was a firball that made a perpendicular manuver in North Windham, Maine in 10/90

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  34. 1 Oct 1989 · 21:30OronoDisc· 20 s

    Silent Lo-flying Craft with Dome and Bright White Lights

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  35. 15 Oct 1988 · 19:55Orono/BangorTriangle· 15 min

    Delta shaped craft seen over UMO (1988?) Oct 15 - very quiet and still to slow moving

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  36. 10 Oct 1988 · 21:00New GloucesterOther· 2 min

    I'm still afraid to look at the sky at night.

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  37. 15 Oct 1984 · 19:00SkowheganDisc· 10 min

    I was working at a church cleaning the parking lot in the evening approx 7 pm. I looked up towards the sky and I could see and object c

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  38. 1 Oct 1984 · 21:00ActonTriangle· 3 min

    Silent, very large, one white headlight, red lights around edges

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  39. 15 Oct 1980 · 23:00JonesportDisc· 5 min

    green gas sorta cloud very slow south to movement started from horison not much to say about it but it was witness at the same time by

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  40. 2 Oct 1976 · 01:00Charleston AfsOther· 20 min

    On this date I was stationed at Charleston AFS, ME and worked in the reciever section of the AN/FPS-27A Search radar located at the sit

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  41. 27 Oct 1975 · 24:00LimestoneOrb· 20 min

    Loring AFB 1975 Sighting

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  42. 1 Oct 1968 · 20:00KennebunkportSphere· 10 min

    While at the boathouse at St.Athonys one night we noticed what at first we thought was a bright star getting larger.It seemed to dart a

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About this data

Where these reports come from

Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.