Triangle over Buxton, ME
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 9:01 PM I saw a white light on the horizon. The sun had set around 7:50 so there was only a little light left. The light that I saw was about as bright as Venus and I started filming on my iPhone. A second white light started moving towards me so I started filming it instead and I was not disappointed. The light continued to get brighter and started rising on the horizon so I knew it was coming at me. After a minute it was close enough for my eyes to see it clearly and I got really excited because I knew it was something extraordinary. From far away the whole UFO was white light but up close I saw that it had a silver metallic color and there were actually 5 lights in a row on top of the front of the aircraft. The lights were every color of the rainbow and they were constantly changing. I saw blue, green, purple, orange, red all at the same time and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. For 13 seconds I was in awe. The iPhone footage doesn’t do it justice but check it out at https://youtu.be/rxb3IEQV7FI After analyzing the footage you can see the light in the center pulsating on and off and possibly a sixth light on the tail end of the triangular shaped aircraft. Like any good UFO photographer I only got like 4 seconds of clear zoomed in footage, but please download the YouTube video so you can zoom in and slow motion at 1 min 17 seconds. Stoked to finally get good footage for all the skeptics out there. Get out and look up my fellow believers, they’re out there.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171224). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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