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Light over Duncan (Canada), BC · Canada

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Object in high orbit that looked like a satelite, yet was able to make tight turns and abrupt stops before vanishing

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April 11, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL

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On the evening of April 11, 2016, between 10:15 and 11:45 pm, PST, a friend and I conducted a CE-5 on her property just north of Duncan, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, the west coast of Canada. I was a skeptic, non-observer, and until then, UFOs were for lunatics and movies (thanks for decades of social conditioning). My friend, a biologist, amateur pilot, and a professional businesswoman, had, over the course of several weeks, slowly revealed to me that she had seen things at night in the sky on many occasions that she could not explain, while walking her dogs around the large farm she lived on at the time. As a pilot and amateur astronomer, she had easily ruled out all conventional aircraft, meteorites and common weather anomalies to explain her repeated observations. The extent of her sightings up until April 11, 2016 were stationary lights resembling stars that got brighter, dimmed, and got brighter, several times, over several minutes, not seconds, seemingly on command. 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