UFO Sightings in Maine
1,115 UFO sightings reported in Maine since 1946, peaking in 2012 (103 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,115
- Span
- 1946–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (103 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2022 · peak 2012 (103 reports)
Top cities in Maine
Portland
1964–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Bangor
1967–2020 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Scarborough
1958–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Augusta
1995–2021 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Lewiston
1998–2020 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
York
1974–2017 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Waterville
1965–2019 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Brunswick
1954–2020 · peak 2006 (2 reports)
Gorham
1995–2022 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Auburn
1995–2021 · peak 2018 (3 reports)
Ellsworth
1967–2020 · peak 2013 (2 reports)
Kittery
1973–2021 · peak 2014 (2 reports)
Wells
1978–2021 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Old Orchard Beach
2001–2019 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Kennebunk
2001–2021 · peak 2020 (4 reports)
Winslow
1976–2018 · peak 2011 (2 reports)
South Berwick
1994–2019 · peak 2016 (4 reports)
Windham
1995–2022 · peak 1995 (1 reports)
Sanford
2000–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Bridgton
2012–2021 · peak 2019 (3 reports)
Caribou Maine · ME, USA
I believe the sightings happened in summer of 1974. I was an airman stationed at Loring airforce base. The night of the first sightin
Brooksville · ME, USA
A report from Brooksville, ME in April 1974 described a hovering, saucer-shaped object with blinking lights that appeared to respond to signals from witnesses' flashlights, lasting 5 minutes.
Madison · ME, USA
A report from Madison, ME in January 1974 described an oval, glowing, chartreuse-green object with rotating, blinking red-to-yellow lights along its side, lasting 30 seconds.
Kittery · ME, USA
A report from Kittery, ME in August 1973 described a very fast, point-like light that crossed the sky and vanished, lasting 10 Seconds.
South China (Three Mile Pond) · ME, USA
A report from South China, ME in August 1973 described a bronze-colored, bright, silent light moving from south to east over a lake, lasting 20 minutes.
Bar Harbor · ME, USA
A report from Bar Harbor, ME in July 1973 described brilliant white, perfectly round objects moving rapidly back and forth, and up and down, in the night sky, lasting 45 minutes.
Eddington · ME, USA
dark circle dim lights from above showed shape stopped in it's path when we spotted it took 90% turn quick stopped turned parrellel too
Eddington · ME, USA
A witness in Eddington, Maine reported a black, circular object dimly lit around its perimeter that appeared able to stop dead in the air, during a one-minute sighting in December 1972.
Holden · ME, USA
((HOAX??)) entity can be described as a "gray" peering into bedroom window. ((anonymous report))
Dexter · ME, USA
I was thirteen then. My grandmother, mother and I were having an ice cream in the car outside a diner. About 45-50 degrees south we saw
Orono · ME, USA
Witnesses in Orono, Maine reported a rectangular object about 30 to 40 feet long with sharply defined corners, glowing red from within while hovering, for over five minutes in September 1971.
Enfield · ME, USA
The object would stop and move and then blink off and be somewhere else in the sky. And started moving again but at a slow pace!
Kennebunkport · ME, USA
While at the boathouse at St.Athonys one night we noticed what at first we thought was a bright star getting larger.It seemed to dart a
Loring AFB · ME, USA
ufo incident over Loring AFB
Stillwater · ME, USA
A witness in Stillwater, Maine reported a large green luminous object appearing in a field before it suddenly vanished into the night sky in July 1968, during a three-minute sighting.
Bucksport · ME, USA
The craft never made a sound
Brownville · ME, USA
Witnesses in Brownville, Maine, reported three metallic, circular objects on the western horizon during a three-minute sighting in September 1967.
Caribou · ME, USA
Witnesses in Caribou, Maine, reported three separate sightings, a disk-shaped object, a zig-zagging star-like light, and a bar of light, with one lasting about ten seconds in September 1967.
Ellsworth · ME, USA
Witnesses in Ellsworth, Maine, reported a silent, teardrop-shaped object with a sectional front end during a five-minute sighting in August 1967.
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
Bangor · ME, USA
Witnesses reported an unidentified object landing behind Bangor State Hospital in Bangor, Maine, in 1967, with accounts describing nearby garage doors opening and closing at the same time.
Bangor · ME, USA
i was watching the news on WABI-tv,bangor,maine and they had an interview with a bangor police officer, telling how he went to investig
Bass Harbor · ME, USA
In Blue Hill Bay near Bass Harbor, Maine in August 1966, a witness reported a disk-shaped object, observed for about five minutes.
Cape Rosier · ME, USA
On July 4, 1966 near Cape Rosier, Maine, a witness reported a glowing green ball-shaped light moving across the horizon, for approximately one hour.
Loring · ME, USA
3 orbs over Loring AFB.