The University of Maine’s homecoming festivities will look a little different this year.

For the first time, the weekend of home athletic events and other campus activities is also taking to the skies with two different drone light shows.

Increasingly popular at major sporting events and other large gatherings, drone shows can feature hundreds of aerial drones flown in a choreographed way to make various patterns and shapes.

And according to UMaine, the two shows coming to campus on Friday and Saturday nights respectively will be the largest drone shows ever flown in Maine.

Grizzly Entertainment, an international company based on the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus, will be flying 400 drones in each of the shows to celebrate the UMaine homecoming. And they’ll be doing it for free.

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