Other over Kittery, ME
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At about 10 pm EST I arrived home from work. I always look up in the sky and I noticed what I thought was a plane slowly heading in my direction. It had 3 lights and no blinking light and no sound. Then it appeared to just stop and not move. Then it appeared to back up a bit. All of a sudden it kind of lit up and you could actually see a dome shaped craft with what looked like a bunch of windows. Then it was like the lights just went out and the craft was gone. I almost woke up my roommate and almost even rang the doorbell of the neighbor across the street. My thought was someone else had to have seen this. My roommate did call the Kittery Police soon after to see if there were any other reports but the dispatcher said there were none. It appeared to be north of the ocean cove across the street. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in the same area which is a nuclear submarine base.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #127290). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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