As reported

Light over Bar Harbor, ME

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The report, as filed

Was watching for meteors around 2am. Looking straight up, I saw a bright blueish/white light towards the southwest sky that seemed rather far away, possibly even outside the atmosphere. It appeared out of nowhere and traveled in a straight line for about half a second before making an S-pattern and disappearing. It was traveling at high speed similar to that of a meteor. Had it not been for the S-pattern I would have thought it were another meteor.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148079). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Bar Harbor, ME

My friend and I were outside her house near the ocean tonight, watching the sky and talking about UFOs. Oddly enough, as we’re on this topic, we see a long trail of lights moving slowly through the night sky toward the ocean (northeast). There must have been about 100 of them. They were in perfect single file, some spaced further apart than others, and had the appearance of very bright stars. They were moving horizontally. It was strange how in sync they were, moving at the exact same pace. They also moved much more slowly than you would expect. We were completely blown away. Of course we took out our cameras, but they couldn’t quite pick it up in the dark. I managed to take a screenshot of the video I took and adjusted the brightness so you can see one frame of them (I will be emailing in the photo). There were many, many more than what I captured with my camera, but it gives you the idea. Eventually they disappeared at this one point in the sky, one by one! , until they were all gone. I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life, and I have no idea what it could have possibly been.

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