During the day on Saturday, April 8, 2023, at 11:55 AM, an out of this world extraordinary event happened over the state of Maine. A fireball was seen by multiple witnesses penetrating Earth’s atmosphere, and rocketing over Washington County in Maine and into New Brunswick, Canada! There were also multiple sonic booms heard in Calais, Maine. One witness in Penobscot described it as, “Ball was bright red and smoke trail was very white and it was so bright—especially against the clear blue sky.” NASA later confirmed the object was detected on their Doppler radar, and identified it as a meteorite.

Meteorites are not uncommon. But to clearly see one in broad daylight is very rare. As Darryl Pitt, Chair of the Meteorite Division at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel, Maine marveled, “When a fireball is sufficiently bright to be seen in broad daylight, it would have been extraordinarily bright had this been at night.” Even more extraordinary is according to the American Meteor Society, “Signatures from falling meteorites are seen in data from a single NOAA NEXRAD radar” in Houlton, ME. This means there are fragments on the ground waiting to be found!

NASA has even gone as far as to calculate the location of where fragments may be found. Per NASA’s website for meteorite falls, “the first appearance of falling meteorites occurs at 15:57:43.5 UTC and an altitude of 7,440m above sea level. The last signature appeared at 16:02:23.7 UTC and 2,376m, for a total elapsed observation time of 4 minutes and 40 seconds.” They even include a map of the possible one mile wide debris field, which extends from just north of Waite, Maine to over the Canadian border over Canoose, New Brunswick, with the greatest likelihood of finding specimens west of Canoose straddling the border between the two countries.

Now here is where things get really exciting, the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum, which contains the single largest specimens of both the Moon and Mars on Earth, is offering a $25,000 reward for the first one kilogram (2.2 pounds) meteorite recovered! They go on to say they are willing to purchase additional fragments, depending on the type recovered, because “specimens could easily be worth their weight in gold.” However, there is a catch. You are responsible to pay for the test conducted by their own research lab technologist to confirm whether or not the specimen you found is actually a meteorite. So before bringing anything in to the museum, do your homework on identifying meteorites. Also remember before searching private property, please get the owner’s permission first.

As a renowned Dog Ufologist, I am very excited at the thought of what the reward money could do to advance my research! However, as usual, I believe there is more to the story that they are not telling us. Take for example this eyewitness in Quispamsis, New Brunswick (CA), “It is easy to conclude that you’ve seen a meteor in a night sky but observing one during the day was completely unique to me. My initial impulse was so wonder if was a falling aircraft but the speed and trajectory were that of a meteor from my experiences ( minimal though they may be ). Or this second eyewitness in Pembroke, Maine, who also reported that it looked like mechanical object, “It was like a bottle rocket and looked like it fell very close to be and stopped glowing like it burned out, not that is disappeared past the horizon.” I conclude that based on these observations that this has all the telltale signs of a UFO crash!

Now you have to ask yourself, if someone is willing to pay $25,000 for finding a kilogram of a meteorite, what is the reward for locating an actual UFO?