Jim Dobens is sure he saw something hovering over Boothbay Harbor's Mill Cove the evening of June 9.

The Boothbay Harbor resident is not sure what it was.

But Dobens knows he saw a series of orange yellow lights, glowing lights he estimates were a lot bigger than a Buick, maybe as large as half the hulk of a wooden sailing ship that is rotting on bottom not far from his house.

After a late supper, he was at home playing cribbage with his wife after their TV set was unable to pick up their usual channels on Direct TV.

It was about 9:30 p.m. when Dobens said he noticed a light slowly fly over St. Andrews Hospital and move over the water. He and his wife watched as it hovered at about 500 feet over Wotton's Wharf. Then it sped upwards.

A moment later they saw another one and it did the same thing. Then a third object appeared and repeated the movement of the other two objects.

“At first, I thought it might be a medical flight (helicopter) landing at St. Andrews Hospital, but there was no sound,” he said.

Boothbay Harbor Police Chief Robert Hasch said his department did not get any calls reporting the lights. “I know Jim and he is a good guy,” Hasch said.

Lincoln County Emergency Communications Chief Tod Hartung said his office did not receive any calls either.

Dobens said he is sure he saw something, but he is not sure what it was.

He said he went to Cornell University, and took a freshman course from Carl Sagan, a professor of astronomy who popularized the study of the universe and promoted the idea that there are other beings in the cosmos.

Sagan told the class: “If you believe we are the only things in this expanding universe, you are nuts.”

“I wonder if anyone else saw this thing?” Dobens said.