SIGHTING: FRANKLIN, MAINE (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"My cousin, Kyle Pottle, and I, Daniel Morse Jr., left my house at approximately 23:15 hours in my Ford F150. We were en route to a blueberry field in Franklin,Maine. the field is parted by the George's Pond Road. we arrived around 23:35. we were going to the field to hunt coyotes. we were traveling northwest on the George's Pond Road when we noticed a "NO TRESPASSING" sign. road was icy so it took a little longer than normal to stop, and by the time i had stopped i passed the sign.so i backed up and positioned my truck to shine the headlights north to illuminate the sign so we could read the whole thing. immediately after reading the sign we noticed a steadily blinking light to the north. we first thought it was a hunter already afield signaling to us to let us know that spot was occupied. so we watched for a few minutes. then it seemed like there were multiple lights that were moving, all the while blinking in a steady pattern, the light would flash on for about 1/3 second, then off for 1 second. then we shut off all the lights in the vehicle, figuring that if they were hunters they would stop signaling. the lights continued to pulse. it seemed like there were at least two separate lights. one appeared to have a yellow tint and the other had a faint orange tint. the lights would blink on in one location and while the light was off, it would instantly move to another location then flash back on. Kyle and I, both being UFO believers considered the possibility that it was an extraterrestrial craft. we rolled the windows down and shut the vehicle down. we could hear no thing other than the wind. then i became very fearful and insisted we leave. as i was backing the vehicle down the road, kyle watched the lights. as he was watching he said he saw about seven lights flash on at once in a horizontal row. then we left the field. on our way to my home in Hancock,me, Kyle convinced me to go back. so on our way back to the field, we tried to call our friend Tim Sobel, who lives in Franklin, to see if he wanted to come with us. kyle's phone was getting very bad reception in an area which he normally got perfect reception. he tried calling but couldn't get so much as a ring. so we continued back to the field without Tim. when we went back to the field the lights were still blinking and watched them for a few more minutes. At 23:56 we left the field and went home, all the while Kyle watched his phone to see if his reception would improve. when we got to a hill that always has good reception he still had bad reception. so he shut his phone off. it would not turn on again. so he removed the battery and reinstalled it and his phone would turn on again. in the same location that showed only one bar of reception only a minute ago now showed a perfect four bars of reception. in the morning we will contact the the local news outlets, airports, and police stations for reports of strange phenomena. i have included an aerial photo of the area and a weather report of the area an hour after we saw the lights. the weather conditions in the report are the same as during the occurrence."