Circle over Casco, ME
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was driving east on route 302, and spotted a red, green, (I know its Christmas but this is NO hoax...) and blue flashing lights… Watched it from the lake edge for about a half hour with and without binoculars...Lights were flashing very quickly, appeared once or twice to expel something from the lights...through binoculars it is obviously a small object hovering anywhere from 200-600 feet up. What I dont know is WHAT the HECK that was. I've seen some weird shit in my life, but that one, friend, takes the cake. It was moving up and down, left and right in a slow and deliberate motion… I apologize in advance for the quality. Oh, and for a short time the neighbor's dog was going INSANE barking at it. Also, it appears this particular object is, as far as I can tell, round(ish?) and about the size of a minivan. Hard to tell with all the flashing. Heading back out to get pictures and hopefully not get abducted in the process… Not far from Betty and Barney country out here... I'm a 37 year old male btw, and I wouldn't waste my time making up internet stories.
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June 25, 2022 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Casco, ME
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May 28, 2022 · 9:18 PM · LIGHT
Casco, ME
Saw a light (orange yellow) at a slight northeast direction, relative to me, and was at the home-side of the loop driveway seen at the location given. Noticed the light more NE then the light moved at a strange (given height, and location) but consistent speed to about due east, then, before the treeline, moved in a weird fashion very suddenly, almost shaking with some vertical axis movement (my camerawork exagerrated this unintentionally, and im sorry there are no referential trees), then blinked 5 to 7ish times at what seemed to be a consistent interval, a small bit faster than 60bpm (i.e. a blink per second), and continued until it disappeared--unsure what occluded it at the end, hence my audible surprise. Heading seemed to follow a north-south line. Trees were not in the way so as to cause the blinks either. The light reappeared when my partner came outside and I yelled for her to come see (after the video here) when it finally went behind the treetops. Id stopped filming as I assumed it was gone. There were no clouds between myself and the craft at the time of blinking. The shape of this light (the way it shined) implied 1 larger central light source, and two smaller ones of the same color (yellow orange but more yellow), but the lights were so clustered closely from my position that it melded into one light shape overall. As to the configuration of the lights, it was like a very flat triangle (think limpet shallow) with the large light source slightly above (and certainly centralized to imply an isoceles symmetry about itself) the two others that seemed to protrude more laterally from my perspective, not unlike the needles of light on a car windshield at night from a streetlamp. Video did not capture this level of detail. There was also a "spike" of that same color light coming from the center and poking vertically. This is just again implying to me multiple sources of light. Note I dont think or mean to describe these as beams, and I have no astigmatism, they were more luminous appendages that implied multiple sources. The light was brighter than any aircraft Ive ever seen in this way, and from this area, and no flights were close by on flightradar at the time in that direction and angle and heading. Unsure what angle I was looking up, but it varied based on treetops, and was between 30 to above 45 degrees inclined up while filming. Any erratic lateral movement (mostly) can be attributed to my hands not being as stable as a tripod. I didnt see much lateral strangeness in person, and as noted, the movement was mainly consistent, until it was not. Video here is the best I could do. Shot on Galaxy Z Fold 2, and twice I used 2x zoom (when it gets more blurry) to try and get some level of comparison. I could not get trees or anything to come into view either but have provided a picture that captured the twilight and lighting conditions and direction I first saw it. Both my partner and I witnessed a similar scenario months or weeks ago (not as prepared, so dont remember, but there was snow), same location, but the exact inverse of given locations and headings, and I dont have as many details for that, but this prior light-event was following two low flying non-commercial craft that came by one after another, separated by ~30sec., and heading north. We were seeing it by facing west. It too disappeared suddenly. No clouds were to blame. My partner and I are both computer scientists, actively research topics like consciousness, and systems design, or emergent phenomena, TOE, etc. We have histories of lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, vivid OBEs, and sleepwalking. We also are accomplished, but enthusiast musicians and producers with backgrounds in new media and photography.
July 22, 2021 · 9:05 PM · TEARDROP
Casco, ME
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February 13, 2021 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Casco, ME
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February 22, 2017 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Casco, ME
Possible sighting of Venus?? PD