"Coming across the water." The terrifying final 4 words of a lighthouse keeper who disappeared mid-shift.

I want to share an obscure encounter from 1954 that feels like an actual Lovecraft story, but has a heavily redacted federal paper trail attached to it.

Warren Cole was the sole keeper at Sable Point Light in Maine. On a clear night in October, he vanished. The boat was still docked, his boots were inside, and the massive lighthouse beam kept rotating overhead all night long.

In his logbook, which is currently held in a small historical society in Machias, he documented something physically impossible. He described an unblinking, stationary object hovering above the ocean. As his lighthouse beam swept past this object, the light didn't reflect. Instead, Cole wrote that his beam was physically pulled into the object.

His last entry, written in handwriting his own wife said was violently shaking, was just four words: "Coming across the water."

He was never found. The Coast Guard search crew reported extreme radio static in the area for days, and decades later, 1/3 of the official incident file is still classified under "operational sensitivity."

Does this match any known UAP behaviors where light is physically absorbed or bent?

(PS: I spent weeks gathering the surviving dispatch logs, the widow's archives, and the FOIA responses into a visual documentary essay. If you're interested in watching the full breakdown, let me know and I'll link the video in the comments.)