- LEWISTON, Maine - Authorities
have no explanation for eerie bright lights and loud rumbling sounds that
dozens of people reported coming from the skies Wednesday night in the
Lewiston area.
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- People from Lewiston, Auburn, Sabattus, Greene, Leeds,
Monmouth and Minot called police or the Lewiston Sun Journal about the
lights and noises. They said they saw bright lights or a streak of light
followed by a flash, and heard loud rumbling noises.
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- "It was a long rumbling. It sounded like a huge,
huge object," said Lynn Madelyn Bailey, 59, of Minot. "I was
afraid to go out on my deck. It sounded like it was right over my
house."
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- But officials said no commercial flights flew through
the area at the time, and freak weather patterns were ruled out.
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- Lewiston Police Sgt. Michael McGonagle tried to find
the source of the phenomenon after taking several calls about it.
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- But after calling the Federal Aviation Administration,
the National Guard, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and others, he didn't
have an answer.
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- So people in the area Thursday were left to wondering:
Did dozens of people experience a close encounter of the first kind?
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- "We'd like to get to find out what it was and put
some closure to it," McGonagle said. "I don't believe in aliens
so I don't think it was the mothership."
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- But Bud Bechtel, a former Bates College professor who
lives in Weld, said he thinks people have to keep an open mind on what
the phenomenon was. Bechtel is a member of a national organization called
the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON.
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- "I'm glad people have reported it, said Bechtel,
who did not see or hear anything. "Many people are more open-minded
about it these days. They dare to talk about it."
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