West Lake, ME, USA
I SAW A ORANGE GLOW LIGHT IN THE DEEP WOODS AT NIGHT MOVING SLOWLY AND CLOSE TO THE TREE TOPS 2 OF MY BUDDIES AT CAMP SAW IT ALSO
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-07-20
- Where
- West Lake, ME, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4-5 SECONDS
- Geo
- 46.402, -68.118 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-west-lake-me-1967-5e7d5d
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- West Lake, ME shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Maine in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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