3 March 1982
(Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Waterville , Maine
Sources: U.F.O.
Newsclipping Service, Plumerville , Arkansas
The whole article (Page 6):
“Anyone
unlucky enough to be up at 4:50 a.m. Monday (1 March 1982) when thermometers
around Oakland registered from 20 to 28 below zero had the opportunity for a
reward of a sort — an unidentified flying object.
Two Oakland men, one an Oakland
police officer who was on duty at the time, have reported seeing an unexplained
light in the sky between Messalonskee
Lake
Police
Sgt. Ralph Sabins reported the sighting in the police log as occurring at 4:50
a.m. March 1. His official description listed the light, which was brighter
than any of the stars or planets visible, as being over Messalonskee Lake Country Club
Road
He
reported it hovered there before heading toward the northeast (over his head)
without any discernible engine noise. When the light passed overhead, power
lines shook and fluttered even though there was no wind, Sabins wrote.
Dan
Savage, leaving his house to go get breakfast before opening his variety store
in Oakland
When it
dropped down at a 45 degree angle and then went off straight, parallel to the
horizon, he knew it wasn’t a plane. ‘There was no noise, no sound,’ he said,
even though it was cold, clear and still that he could hear the frozen trees
popping and crackling along the edge of the lake.
He said he watched it head off over Libby Hill toward where Sabins had observed it from, and that he was mystified by the fact that it was so quiet. ‘I’ve seen falling stars,’ he said, adding that his certainly wasn’t one. He described it as being a lot brighter than any of the stars that morning.
Savage said that later in the day a woman was in his store, Dan’s Variety, when she asked if anyone had noticed anything strange at about
Savage
mentioned his sighting at a local breakfast restaurant immediately after he saw
it, and, after getting a few raised eyebrows from other patrons, he found that
Sabins, who was at the counter, had just seen the same thing.”
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