UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Portage Lake, ME, USA

Back in what I believe was 1977 maybe 78 my family and I took a trip to our farm in Portage Lake Maine. At the time I was in the 5th gr

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-15
Where
Portage Lake, ME, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 minutes?
Geo
46.785, -68.509 · exact
Slug
disk-over-portage-lake-me-1977-b4198a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Portage Lake, ME in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maine logged 2 sightings in 1977.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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