Last night while this renowned Dog Ufologist slept, a Maine Memorial Day weekend tradition continued. You may recall back in May 2016, a sergeant with the Portland police department captured on dash cam video a UFO rocketing over the city. At the time, experts dismissed it as a meteor. But of course I, a renowned Dog Ufologist, had a different theory. Alien tourists were visiting Maine! There is no denying that vacations in Maine are out of this world. Even extraterrestrials can’t resist summer in my favorite state. Well the word is definitely getting out to the far reaches of the galaxy, because even more extraterrestrial tourists were scheduled to arrive last night.
How do I know this is their plan? Let me walk you through my logic. Back in May 2016, it was a single meteor sighted over Maine and other parts of New England just before Memorial Day weekend. However, by August with the arrival of the Perseid Meteor Shower, I soon made the connection that UFOs used the meteors to disguise their ships as they enter Earth’s atmosphere. The more meteors, the more ships that can be disguised. However, the Perseid Meteor Shower occurs every year from about July 23 to August 22, with it tending to reach its peak around August 11 to August 13. Well that doesn’t leave much time for out of this world vacationers to enjoy summer in Maine, now does it?
Fast forward to last night’s Tau Herculids, which is a new meteor storm. As explained in a recent NASA blog, “Meteor Showers to Bookend Overnight Skywatching Opportunities in May,” (May 3, 2022), the comet, officially known as 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, or SW3, was discovered in 1930 by German observers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachman. It wasn’t spotted again until the late 1970s and in 1995 the comet shattered into several pieces. By the time SW3 passed Earth again in 2006, it was in nearly 70 pieces, and has continued to fragment further since then. In 2009 when it was spotted, scientists believed that it was traveling fast enough that it could be seen. And finally last night the Earth was on track to pass through the debris trails of the broken comet.
As Bill Cooke, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, explained in the NASA blog post, “This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.” Translation: if it is going too slow it may not be visible to the naked eye.
However, some of these intergalactic tourists couldn’t wait until last night to begin their vacation. On Saturday night, alert skywatchers spotted a meteor darting over North Yarmouth and Leeds, Maine, and shared images with our local news channel. Although clearly not familiar with my work, the new meteorologist on that channel theorized that the meteor could be a precursor to the Tau Herculids meteor storm. Which I might add just so happens to coincide with the long holiday weekend.
So there you have it! Proof of my theory that intergalactic tourists use meteors to disguise their ships, to enter our atmosphere on vacation. And they added a new meteor storm this year, so they could enjoy a longer summer season in Maine. A tradition I first noted in 2016, and then again on Memorial Day weekend in 2020 when an alien life from was spotted sunbathing on a beach at Peaks Island.
Alright, I admit at 1:00 AM when they were soaring overhead, I was fast asleep in my bed and didn’t look for them. That is because as a renowned Dog Ufologist, I know that regardless of if they make themselves visible, or not, this only further proves my theory that Maine is a popular vacation spot for extraterrestrials. And we get so many tourists from both outer space and this planet, that it isn’t worth losing sleep over to welcome each of them. I just hope they all enjoy their summer in Maine!
