NUFORC Sighting 171266

Occurred: 2022-08-14 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-08-20 05:54 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds or more
No of observers: 2

Location: Andover, ME, USA
Location details: Black Point campsite, Richardson Lake

Shape: Oval


Looking at stars with my wife, what we thought was a star suddenly got big and bright and started moving through the sky and pulsing.

My wife, my mother-in-law and I were camping on Richardson Lake in Andover Maine. We were staying at the Black Point site run by South Arm Campground (not the day use area). Because it was so clear out and we could clearly see the milky way, my wife decided we should lay on the beach and look at the stars. We were laying flat in our backs, feet pointing west, heads east. I could see the big dipper to our right (north), and what we believed to be Orion to our left (south). I was just looking straight up at 3 or 4 starts that formed a triangle (pointing upwards) when a star that I had seen before, right below the triangle stars got incredibly bright and got much larger than anything else in the sky and started moving at a high rate of speed to our right (north). It seemed to fade, the get get bright again before it faded and disappeared over the point/day use area. Both my wife and I exclaimed when we saw this happen. She also confirmed all the details, including the fact that it appeared to just be a star before it got bright and big, and stared it move. It was several times larger than anything else in the sky, there was no mistaking this for a star. We've also seen satellites, but they are much smaller and don't stay stationary then start moving, and they are significantly smaller than what we saw. We've both seen shooting stars before, this was not one. It made no sound. The campsite is 13 miles down a camp/logging road to South Arm Campground, then 12 miles up via boat to the site… It's remote, we can hear people from miles away, and can easily hear planes flying far above… We heard no sound. After seeing this, my usually calm wife decided she had done enough star gazing for one night and it was time for bed. The thing that bothers me the most was that I thought it was just another star, it was completely stationary before getting big and bright, suddenly moving across the sky suddenly without having to accelerate. It just went from still to moving at incredible speeds instantaneously. The object looked like a glowing white oval.



Posted 2022-09-09

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