Fireball over Ellsworth, ME
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
4 Orange Spheres flying in diamond formation.
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 2012-12-28 → 2013-01-14
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September 7, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Ellsworth, ME
Looking to the north from parking lot, at about 45 degree angle inclination off horizon, two large moonlike bright round objects, same color and shape as full moon but larger, about the same brigthtness as full moon on a clear night, were seen blinking at each other at same altitude. (Objects separated by apparent distance of 5 in.as measured between thumb and forefinger at arm's length). Estimated distance several miles? Not sure. The two objects did not appear to be connected but seemed to be blinking to one another possibly in communication or coordinated somehow. One witness was frightened and went indoors immediately after seeing the objects. The other witness watched the objects for several minutes. A separate object was seen in the sky during this sighting, it was a LifeFlight helicopter according to the witness who had stayed to watch. After the LifeFlight helicopter left the area toward the west, the two large round blinking objects soon blinked out and did not reappear. There was no sound associated with the blinking large objects although the LifeFlight helicopter had made normal helicopter sounds. Moon was not in the sky at time of sighting, had set around 3 pm and was due to rise after 11 pm. Witness is 62 years of age, does not drink alcohol. He did not have his glasses with him, but could see the round objects quite easily because of their brightness and large round shape. He thought it appeared like "two full moons" even though he knew it was not that, and even though the moon would have been in the southern sky so he knew that was impossible. He doesn't believe he had any problem of "double vision."
August 26, 2020 · 12:13 AM · CIRCLE
Ellsworth, ME
Object is orange is round like a star but much bigger and is moving up down left and right and all those other directions in a small pattern sometimes zipping up and down but stays within a certain perimeter and constantly changes direction and speed but all within a small area, have multiple videos unfortunately they’re not very clear. This is not the first time a UFO has been spotted at our property on branch lake, this is the only sighting caught on video, I would like to upload my videos. They are around 1min30sec taken on a IPhone 10. Has also appeared to stop and stay stationary for a few moments then starts moving around again. Videos and pictures DONOT give this sighting any justice but it is without doubt a UFO. I would like to send you my videos and would like to know where to send them???
March 1, 2020 · 10:44 PM · OTHER
Ellsworth, ME
I am not easily scared or brought to tears an shaking by something. But I felt watched by something and considering I had been looking for drone like movements in the lights above or any lights movements then this just powers on an is right in the tree I'm referencing in the yard 80ft away from me...I'm completely at a loss of words or an explanation of this. I'm just left with a sick to my gut eerie feeling. Whatever this was my intuition told me it was inhuman and get away from it now. Maybe the drones all of us around my area have been videoing an sharing stories about arent really dones…
December 13, 2017 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Ellsworth, ME
I was honestly pretty freaked and didn’t want to be a lone so I crawled into bed where my sleeping husband was. I was too scared to go to sleep, so I check Facebook. The first post I saw was a friend posting about a meteor shower in my area. I think well maybe it was a meteor I saw. Then I get up to my bedroom window and look for meteors and I do see about 5 falling meteors. That’s when I see the second unidentified flying object, or maybe the same one. This time I couldn’t see a shape, I saw a red light and a blue light almost on top of each other, and I didn’t hear a noise. It looked smaller and was flying a distance a way. It looked like It was flying through the middle of the tree line. It stayed in a straight line for a few minutes then disappeared. It was now about 11:00 pm, so the whole experience lasted around 10 minutes. The last thing I would like to mention, is when my husband and I woke up this morning, December 14, 2017, I mentioned to him what I saw. He told me he remembers hearing a loud noise and figured it was a plane, and went back to sleep
October 3, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Ellsworth, ME
This is further info, correcting a previous report. (1) Object sighted was spherical, shiny, with downward "jet trails" which looked like thruster trails but were only limited length and ended abruptly. The jet trails angled outward pointing downward, giving the overall "triangular" appearance of the object with vapor trails. Object itself however was spherical and glittered in the sunshine (reflective rather than self illuminated). I was not the witness; I am summarizing the report given by the witness, and trying to get it more accurate with this second report.
October 3, 2016 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Ellsworth, ME
[I am summarizing this report as told to me by eyewitness; more details, possible corrections, and an image file can be sent within a few days.] At approx. six p.m., October 3, in Ellsworth, Maine, the witness was standing outside near a store and happened to glance upward. There, in the light of the setting sun which had just gone down below the horizon, the witness saw an object at approximately the height of a light cumulus cloud layer. These were not high altitude clouds and only partially covered the sky. The object was brightly shining in the sunlight remaining at that higher altitude, looked like two light colored triangles aligned to each other and pointing vertically upward (further description may be added later with drawing if possible). The object was very steady and did not waver or bob about; it was as steady as a rock, seemed to be firmly controlled. No noise was heard from the object. The witness said the object was emitting two light beams or columns of light extending downward from the object a few times its length. It looked as though these two beams or columns of light were propelling the object upward. The light beams were not flames but more like pillars of light, very geometrical and shaped like cylinders, extended downward as stated, but did not trail off but rather seemed to have a strictly limited beam length. The object began moving upward slowly; then after a few seconds the object seemed to either accelerate rapidly upward in that direction or simply "disappeared." It was not covered by clouds but seemed to either zoom out of sight with incredible speed or "wink out." This description is written secondhand and will be corrected later if need be. Will try to get a drawing and indication of apparent size, altitude etc. The object was not moving horizontally but only moved upward, it did not drift in the air. The object was sighted almost directly over the witness's head. Not at the level of high cirrus but rather at the lowest extent of moderate altitude cumulus clouds. Witness, mid sixties in age, wanted to get another witness but the other person was busy so just observed as closely as possible. No camera was available at the time. Witness has excellent distance vision and says will create a small drawing with colors such as pastel etc. which will be provided by photo scan via email at a later time. Witness is in excellent health, with excellent eyesight, does not require distance correction, and is not under any medication, nor does the witness use any alcohol or other drugs; is a nonsmoker. Witness enjoys skywatching occasionally. Witness knows the planets and Moon phases/appearances well and said this was nothing like anything ever seen before.