Post by Joanna on Apr 11, 2017 16:37:15 GMT -5
Triangular-Shaped UFO Reported in Maine
UFO investigators are looking into a case in which a man said he encountered a low-flying, silent, triangle-shaped object along a rural road. On January 13, 2017, the witness was driving with friends in Orrington, Maine, when they spotted the UFO around 11:19 p.m. He reported the incident to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) which is investigating the growing phenomenon.
In a report to the organizations, which keeps a global database of UFO cases it investigates, the witness said: “We were heading up the Brewer Lake Road and went around an ‘S’ turn and we had noticed these red lights down the road above the dam on the lake.” He initially thought it might be a plane from Bangor International Airport. “But there was something unusual about the lights,” he added. “This triangular silhouette went from being far off the road and fairly high in the air (500 to 700 feet) to swooping in very close, probably 400 feet off the road and 200 feet high. The way the object moved down closer was very odd and I was euphoric, but terrified at the same time. It was flat with the horizon when the object dipped up one side at 20 to 30 degrees and swooped in closer. The best way to describe it is the way a feather or a leaf falls to the ground and swoops side-to-side. After it swooped down close to the car everyone started to have this moment of awe, yet panicky.”
The witness went on to describe a bizarre encounter that he and his friends tried to film. “We were all looking at the black equilateral triangle that had glowing bright red lights on each end,” he continued. “The object also had a center light that glowed white and the object was dark against the clear night sky and it had to have been 40 to 60 feet across. But we looked at the video after and we couldn’t see anything but darkness. While she was filming, I kept almost driving my new car off the road into a ditch because this object seemed to be hovering closer to us.” (Witness’s drawing of UFO above.)
Then, according to those in the car, they saw a second, larger triangular object in the sky. “We turned the corner away from the UFO,” the witness related, “and this bigger, triangular thing was across the lake above the Holden/Bucksport side of the lake heading towards the direction of the black triangle UFO. This could have been an airplane, but it was still dead silent.” Afterward, the primary witness contended he kept “dreaming about that 4 or 5 minutes of my life and it was odd it happened on Friday the 13th.”
Though the incident happened four months ago, it was just reported to MUFON. Valerie Shulta, assistant MUFON director for the state of Maine, she is investigating the sighting. A MUFON spokesperson reminded UFO afficionados that most sightings have a simple explanation and turn out to be something natural or manmade.
In December Express reported that MUFON was receiving a huge number of similar triangle UFO sightings. The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre UFOs could be real. Many witnesses tell of a silent triangle shaped object – defined by a series of lights – that are sometimes the size of a football field moving slowly across the sky.
Scott Brando runs the website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoax UFO sightings he doubts any unexplainable sightings. He is of the opinion that triangle-shaped UFOs are usually aircraft or military flares. He insists may formations turn out to be “sky lanterns” and that teams of Golden Knights parachutists have also been “mistaken for UFOs.”
Source: Jon Austin, The Express, April 11, 2017.