3 March 1982
(Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine)
Sources: U.F.O.
Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se
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 and the Waterville
Country Club.
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
as sighted from the 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
reported a similar experience. He said he was out in front of his house at 4:55
a.m. Monday when he noticed the bright light in the sky and assumed at first it
was an ‘airplane or something.’
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 5 a.m. She told Savage that her
house had begun to make funny creaking noises at that time and wondered if
another tremor or earthquake had occurred.
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.”
Wikipedia article: “Oakland, Maine”:
Wikipedia article: “Messalonskee Lake”:
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(tageo.com photo)
Picture of Messalonskee
Lake’s northern-most bay
in summer.
