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.
UFO sightings by city in Maine
Places with at least three reports. 36 other places in Maine have one or two.
Recent sighting reports from Maine
All 42 reports, newest first.
- 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.
Show on map - 2 Oct 2013 · 21:55OrringtonAmorphous· 10 min
Lights seen over Orrington.
Show on map - 27 Oct 2012 · 21:00WhitingSphere· 10 min
Four red circular lights traveling silently.
Show on map - 26 Oct 2012 · 20:00WoolwichSphere· 2 min
Bright light going across the sky then just disappeared
Show on map - 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.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2012 · 23:00OrringtonSphere· 1 h
Large white bright sphere fading away and turning blue in hue, Moving in circular patterns. Repeating.
Show on map - 21 Oct 2012 · 05:30TurnerSphere· 15 s
Greyish sphere seen by 2 people in Maine.
Show on map - 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.
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 13 Oct 2012 · 15:00Stockton SpringsSphere· 3 s
Bright glowing sphere moving across sky at extreme speed.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2012 · 19:00ShapleighAmorphous· 5 min
UFO Chasing commercial flight in southern maine!!
Show on map - 23 Oct 2010 · 20:15PortlandTriangle· 2 min
A Metallic triangular object with dome on underside was seen in Portland, Maine.
Show on map Bright light; large upright being. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD))
Show on mapBright flash from the woods, followed by intense heat.
Show on map- 15 Oct 2008 · 19:00GardinerFormation· 2 min
Hovering object with odd light formation- UFO or blimp
Show on map - 26 Oct 2007 · 05:00OtisDisc· 45 min
Very bright oval shaped object silently moving up and down.
Show on map - 21 Oct 2007 · 19:00BucksportSphere· 20 s
Moving sphere in the sky
Show on map - 2 Oct 2007 · 21:30LubecSphere· 15 s
Low flying bright object appeared to zigzag and hover.
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 14 Oct 2006 · 21:30OgunquitOrb· 5 min
Two bright lights faded over five minutes.
Show on map - 13 Oct 2006 · 05:00BrewerOrb· 4 min
fast moving aircraft aproaching a strange light.
Show on map - 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.
Show on map - 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))
Show on map - 24 Oct 2004 · 16:00HampdenOrb· 45 s
bright spot of light
Show on map - 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.
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 16 Oct 2002 · 15:00Guilford/AbbotCigar· 2 min
My mom and I observed silverish-grayish object above Piscatiquis River in Abbot
Show on map - 1 Oct 2001 · 20:35GreeneDisc· 10 s
Incandescent light-greenish Orb with Red Halo spotted in sky over Northern woods..................
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 15 Oct 1990 · 03:00North WindhamOrb· 7 min
It was a firball that made a perpendicular manuver in North Windham, Maine in 10/90
Show on map - 1 Oct 1989 · 21:30OronoDisc· 20 s
Silent Lo-flying Craft with Dome and Bright White Lights
Show on map - 15 Oct 1988 · 19:55Orono/BangorTriangle· 15 min
Delta shaped craft seen over UMO (1988?) Oct 15 - very quiet and still to slow moving
Show on map I'm still afraid to look at the sky at night.
Show on map- 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
Show on map - 1 Oct 1984 · 21:00ActonTriangle· 3 min
Silent, very large, one white headlight, red lights around edges
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 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
Show on map - 27 Oct 1975 · 24:00LimestoneOrb· 20 min
Loring AFB 1975 Sighting
Show on map - 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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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.