As reported

Flash over Sault Ste. Marie (Canada), ON · Canada

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

White and blue thing

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2006-08-02 → 2006-08-19

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September 30, 2016 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE

Sault Ste. Marie (Canada), ON · Canada

I was driving down Black Road towards Trunk Road when I saw a bright orange circle fly very quickly from my left (east) to my right (west). It was to quick for a plane and to bright. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

August 19, 2015 · 1:45 AM · FORMATION

Sault Ste. Marie (Canada), ON · Canada

On this evening, I happened to look out my bedroom window because it was very cloudy and windy outside. It was about 1:45 am and something unusual caught my eye. A string of lights in a line formation in the sky, far enough up that I knew it could not be a helicopter, kite, or lantern. The lights were hovering in a straight line, blinking and that's what made me realize this was not a plane or anything I have ever seen. I am eighteen years old, and most people would not believe me, so I woke up my mother and made her come outside to see what I was seeing and she was in disbelief. It was nothing she has ever seen before, she had no explanation. We watched the lights for 20 minutes. During these 20 minutes, the hovering line of blinking lights would slowly move into a diagonal formation, and when the clouds cleared up and made the formation more visible, you could see one of the lights almost look as if it was spinning. There was also one red light that would a! ppear every now and then. Eventually this formation of lights slowly began moving in a strange pattern up further into the sky. The lights looked as if they moved in slightly different patterns and formations. This is something we both can not explain. Someone else in our city that is known to us, has a video of the same thing we saw, two nights ago, same time. They sent in a report to this website. Is something happening to our small city?

July 1, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL

Sault Ste. Marie (Canada), ON · Canada

On Tuesday, July 1st, at approx. 10:30pm, whilst over-nighting in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, on a road trip from Minnesota to Montreal, my two teenage children and I were watching the local fireworks over the river separating the USA and Canada. It was raining on and off with overcast skies. During the fireworks, I looked off to the SW and noticed and orange light approaching. As this got closer and easier to see, it appeared to be an orange/red fireball. It was moving from SW to NE at what I’d describe as the speed of a light plane. There was no noise and the object did not change shape and finally disappeared out of sight. I’d estimate the height between 1700 to 2500 feet. Whilst I was watching this, I told my kids to look in the direction I was as they were watching the fireworks and hadn’t noticed it yet. I asked them, “What do you think that is”? They both looked, turned to me with wide eyes, and both said, that’s the same thing we saw at home in August. I posted a similar sighting on 8-26-13 of four of these things in Minnesota. The first sighting still has me baffled and now I’m really intrigued. These aren’t planes or lanterns. After my first sighting I contacted the National Weather Service for wind directions which ruled out balloons etc. I did get a couple of photos of the first sighting but not this one.

September 4, 2013 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE