State Report
UFO Sightings in Maine
1,867 sightings on record from 1910 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
1,867
Share of US total
0.87%
Peak year
2012
193 reports
Top shape
Light
411 reports
Years active
113
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-19 | Hope | other | 1.5 minutes | A growing, lengthening shaft of light, that appeared to be going up in the sky (as opposed to the way a meteor moves). |
| 2023-12-01 | Albion | unknown | 12 to 14 seconds | Spotted a Craft this morning. |
| 2023-11-25 | Auburn | disk | 2-3 seconds | Glowing bluish white light M&M shaped object ~1 mile above Maine |
| 2023-11-20 | Scarborough | light | 2 minutes | Witnessed approximately 20 bright white lights in a diagonal line across the sky shift to be vertical and then one at a... |
| 2023-11-11 | Windham | rectangle | 2 seconds | Floating rectangle with 3 lights |
| 2023-10-05 | Biddeford Maine | circle | Lasted for 3 minutes | White light emitted it was small it was fast and left no chem trail and it had disappeared |
| 2023-09-21 | Freedom | light | 1 - 2 mins | star like but not |
| 2023-09-20 | Oakland | circle | 30 minutes | Have seen one around 15 times and on the 20th I recorded two different ones |
| 2023-09-08 | orono | orb | one second | what did I just capture ? while I was listening to my song soul buzzin , something told me to stop and record this heat... |
| 2023-09-07 | Ellsworth | orb | Several minutes | 2 adult men saw 2 bright objects, each appearing similar to but larger than full moon |
| 2023-09-06 | Kittery | disk | unknown | Caught the object in the photo without seeing it |
| 2023-09-05 | Unsure | unknown | 30 seconds ish | The craft made no noise and disappeared after we looked away. |
| 2023-08-30 | Phippsburg | formation | 5 minutes | 20+ Objects were single file at about 10 degrees going UP |
| 2023-08-26 | Waterville | circle | 10-15 minutes | Glowing and moved up but not side to side - thought it may be a hot air balloon but didn’t look like one and was too... |
| 2023-08-23 | Auburn (looking SW) | orb | 2-3 minutes | Orb hovering above the moon, slow descent straight down, hovered, then disappeared |
| 2023-08-19 | Searsport | triangle | 2 to 3 minutes | Hovered and moved |
| 2023-08-12 | Milford | oval | 20 seconds | high in the sky traveling east to south a silvery object moving rapidly |
| 2023-08-05 | Palmyra | light | 30 min | I observed a light traveling in elliptical and straight formation |
| 2023-07-30 | Union | cube | One Minute | A square light in the sky, which disappeared, reappeared, and disappeared. |
| 2023-06-15 | Lebanon | disk | 10 minutes | At campground bright white disk tipped on its side and was moving slow for a few s |