Disk over Gorham, ME
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Disk shaped object with a band of orange and white lights seen with my binoculars!
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 2012-01-27 → 2012-02-13
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November 9, 2022 · 5:20 PM · LIGHT
Gorham, ME
I was walking from my dining hall to Russel Hall at USM to go to a theatre rehearsal. It was the tail end of dusk and I could see other stars in the sky and out of nowhere a bright gold light appeared in the sky, it looked like a star but it was very bright. It was too high to be a drone, and it moved too strangely to be a plane, satellite, or a shooting star. It moved straight across the sky about 30 feet and the way it moved was extremely unnatural, it was almost like it was on an invisible axis with no wind resistance. I wish I could articulate better how it moved but I've never seen anything like it in my life. And then without warning the light just went out and there was no evidence or trail that it had been in the sky at all. I looked around to see if anyone else had saw it- there were a few people walking out of the dining hall and someone going to their dorm but they were all looking at their phone or talking to each other and nobody else saw it. This is a very routine walk for me and I haven't done any drugs or anything out of the norm that would've made me seen it.
July 14, 2022 · 9:08 PM · LIGHT
Gorham, ME
Steady bead of white light moved in an arcing trajectory from west to east. It seemed to continue straight east over the North Atlantic Ocean. It didn’t make any strange movements, and there was no noise. It was just a bright white light that didn’t change shape, no sound, and there were no colored, blinking lights. Estimated height unknown- 20,000 to 40,000 feet?
February 5, 2022 · 7:35 AM · DIAMOND
Gorham, ME
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December 3, 2016 · 2:00 PM
Gorham, ME
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August 20, 2016 · 9:10 PM · OVAL
Gorham, ME
My wife and I driving home from Watchic Lake in Standish @ 9:10PM, driving south on Rt. 25. We had crossed the Standish/Gorham line and were about half of a mile from our next turn, when I (the driver) noticed very bright orange lights above and to our left just over and amongst the tree line. I glance up a second time, and noticed how close and bright they appeared. My wife noticed I was weaving slightly and I told her to look up to our left. She was a little more concerned with my driving, but looked up and confirmed that she could see the orange lights. I purposely started to count them and said I saw seven lights. It was then that I realized that our turn was up ahead, so I stepped on it so we could turn left onto Spiller Rd and be facing the line of lights. We pulled over, now watching as the lights were going from right to left fairly slow and steady but in a staggered formation. I was telling my wife to take a video quickly while we could still see five of them, before they went behind the tree line. She just got the new cell a few days before and was pressing buttons frantically trying to find the camera app. I was pleading with her to hurry up because they were moving away, and by the time she took a picture there were just two of them. The last orb seemed to speed up closer to the one in front of it. I thought she got a video but she didn't. As they flew out of view I hurried to get to the end of the road where the fields start and we would have an unimpeded view. From time to time we caught a glimpse of bright orange light through the trees, but when we got to the field area we scanned the skies northward to our left but they had disappeared completely from our view. The bright moon was in front of us to our right. We drove to our daughter's house in Gorham to tell them and show them the picture.
December 20, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Gorham, ME
December 19th, 2015. I went to bed as I usually do at just after 11:00pm. Because of a medical issue I get up often through the night. It was at this point the date is technically now December 20th, 2015 3:00 a.m. My staircase stops at the front door and out that door window I have seen the same night sky for a very long time now. But this time there was an extra light out the door window pointing to the North West. I live in the country there are not lost of extra lights, we have very active night life of coyotes, deer, and many other animals. This light I noticed was very bright, at first I thought maybe it was a planet but this object grew in brightness, grew extremely bright. But it was motionless and as I watch it a plane very far off blinking red light so I assume it was a plane far in the sky. This other object was still motionless but what seemed to be too low in the sky to be a star also this was normally a blank space in the clear night sky. There should not have been an object there and has not every night since. I went back to bed after watching this object for about ten minutes. Again the time is now approximately, December 20th, 2015 3:10 a.m. I pass a stove clock on my night trip to the bathroom so I see the time each time I get up. I again got up as I do this time it was just after 4:00 a.m. December 20th, 2015 and I took notice that the object was gone not out the front door window North West. This time I took a quick shower as I itch often so bad I need to shower just to be able to relieve the itching, it is all part of a recovery from a bone marrow transplant. I got out and checked the time so I knew how long before my wife would be waking; it would be Sunday Morning December 20th, 2015 when we got up and the sun was up. So again it is almost 4:30 a.m. December 20th, 2015, I have to the South East a wall of windows and looked out to see is there was any snow falling? No, still too warm, very unseasonably warm for the North where I am. It is at this time I notice that object from the front door window is now out my South East Window, this is not the direction the stars or moon moves in as they travel the night sky, so this right off tells me there is something different about this object. I call to my wife upstairs to come down and take a look. This object is so bright and motionless and again too low in the sky from the horizon perspective to be a planet or star and it is far brighter than all the other stars. And now each night I look for this object, if it were something regularly in the night sky I expect I should see it but, I have not. It was there it was very big and bright, to me it looked the size about what looked like a ¼ of the size of the moon which was not yet out as the full moon is still to come for this month. Compared to other objects in the night sky this was huge and bright and did not move while I watched it. I watched it for about 15 minutes this second time and it just got very bright then would get very dim, once it did seem to just go out but then came back on, this was a very white light in that is seemed to appear to be so white I could see other colors of the spectrum in it like neon green, yellow, very lite blue. Today is December! 24th, 2015 and still no sign of it in the sky, I wonder was this my very first sighting? I can-not explain what it was and it did not seem to belong there. I will watch and look every night from here on out, and now am looking to get some form of telescope, I don’t really care to try and prove this to any but for my own fascination I want a better look. To each their own.