Circle over Newport, ME
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Strange lights that we cant explain as known aviation
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-05-02 → 2012-05-19
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December 9, 2016 · 4:30 PM · DISK
Newport, ME
My mother and I were traveling in a car towards Newport at 4:30 PM, when a moving light caught my notice. My mother was only able to take a short look at the object as she was driving the car at the time. I watched it for ten minutes, searching over possible explanations for the strange object. It lacked the consistent blinking and red and green light color common to planes. The altitude at which the object maneuvered, I would estimate, was like that of a plane (39,000 feet), possibly lower. The object moved fairly quickly and was lit by white/yellow light which appeared to rotate. I lost sight of the object when it moved behind a large cloud and apparently disappeared.
July 7, 2015 · 11:00 AM · CIGAR
Newport, ME
Cigar shape daylight object. Has distinct cigar, almost saucer shape outline, not shape like a usual airplane. It was above tree line, but too far away to see detail. I normally would not report this, but it had unusual shape. It was white color and straight, not tilted. It was moving slowly but lost sight as it moved away. It may have been a manmade object of some sort but no binoculars to get a closer view. Anyways, the unusual design of the object is the reason I reported it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 13, 2015 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Newport, ME
We were riding on a tractor headed to were another pasture is opened up. When we got passed the treed line I saw a star like light just hovering and pulsating. I said to W2, "That's odd, it's pulsating." Then in stopped. I mentioned that it stopped, then it started again. Then it seriously was like we jumped it. It seemed as if it had picked us up on rader and it was busted. It then went to my right and sort of toward two o'clock. Then it swooped back toward it's starting point. As it did, it seemed to spin around and this intense white white white light shines, right into my eyes, and W2's. But, it doesn't light up around us or the surrounding sky, like a lighthouse would. As quick as it shined it kept spinning to it's previous pulsating light. It came in circular form in the object. Like on a belt; from it's left rear, around the front of it, so bright, then to the right and behind. But only once. It was like, for the moment the light was right on, it was the only focus. W2 said, "It was like a photographer, five feet in front of you. And that's about how long it was there, just a flash." It then kept going to the left at a stable speed, keeping a line, until it was gone. So W2 and I finally come back to the house and are talking about it outside when W3 comes down. We start telling him about it, and this light starts coming back across the sky, left to right. W2 and W3 saw it turn and head toward the two o'clock direction where it was going to go when we first came upon it. I saw it disaper into the trees. It wasn't too far off. A jet plane flew over around the same time and it seemed further away than this thing. It's movements, no sign of jet fuel, no sound. Intense bright light with no rays... My heart is a pounding. It was too dark for my phone to catch anything.
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