Triangle over Portland, ME
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A Metallic triangular object with dome on underside was seen in Portland, Maine.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2010-10-20 → 2010-11-06
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February 9, 2023 · 5:57 PM · CHANGING
Portland, ME
I was walking my dog outside at the gas station I saw a white light up here so it started filming it I then stopped filming it because I saw something else it was a red light that was blinking and it would move across the sky before I could even blink it was very fast that was yesterday in Portland I'm at my house in Lewiston where I just start again tonight I have video of both incidents and one of the one last month
September 11, 2020 · 10:01 PM · OTHER
Portland, ME
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.
April 8, 2020 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Portland, ME
I noticed the sun had a rainbow all the way around it. I decided to take some pictures with my cell phone. So I took 4 pictures. On my next break I checked out the pictures. In two pictures one can plainly see that there is a hexagonal shaped U.F.O. It is apparent that it is moving at a fast speed. I took 3 pic in like 4-5 seconds and the two pictures that show the UFO it is in different places in the photo.
March 31, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Portland, ME
I saw a bright white light approaching west to east that disappeared after a few seconds. This happened 3 times in roughly 10 minutes. I couldn't see a craft and there was no sound. A fourth light I was able to see with binoculars. Looked like satellite
July 13, 2018 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Portland, ME
At approximately 10:30 PM Eastern Standard Time (3:30 AM UTC) two fast-moving objects were spotted in the sky directly above Portland, Maine. The two objects initially followed identical linear trajectories through the night sky, separated by about 5 degrees of arc, coming into sight directly overhead. The two lights were point-source, with brightness similar to a dim star. At an incredibly high altitude, the fast-movers paralleled each other with great velocity – much faster than any satellite could travel while still maintaining orbit, and much faster than any known commercial or military aircraft. Around 4 to 5 seconds after visual contact was established, the two objects immediately jutted to the left and to the right to cross paths with each other moments later. The movement was seemingly impossible and violated laws of conservation of momentum, as an extremely large external force must’ve been present in order to move them in such a way. After crossing! paths, the two objects returned to their original distance of separation and, with the same seemingly-impossible course correction, returned to their linear trajectories. Two other witnesses and myself maintained visual contact until light pollution from the nearby city of Portland caused us to lose contact. If you have any further questions, feel free to reach me at this email or contact ((name and # deleted)) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. PD
June 24, 2016 · 3:30 PM · CYLINDER
Portland, ME
I was driving on Washington Ave in Portland, ME, stopped at a stop light. The sky was clear today and there were no clouds or trees obstructing my view. It was a bright sunny afternoon and this happened around 3:30 PM. I saw an object that looked like a horizontal cylinder - shades of white and gray, not shiny, no lights. I only saw it for about one second, just long enough to see it was moving from right to left (northeast to southwest). About a second after I started tracking the object with my eyes, it simply vanished. While it was visible to me, it looked like how planes look sometimes when you can't see their wings so they look kind of like a UFO until they change angles so you can see the wings. In that one instant, that's what I thought it probably was, until it disappeared. The object was perhaps about 45-60 degrees from the plane of the horizon, and I'd guess its length was about 1/3 to 1/4 the angular diameter of the full moon.