Cigar over Alliston (Canada), ON · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Just a bit after dusk, I was sitting at my backyard table in Alliston, Ontario. My backyard faces south looking over a farmer's field. I noticed a cigar shaped (horizontal) object which was heading West at a very rapid rate. The object had very bright yellow lights (not flashing but solid). It was travelling very fast and only lasted perhaps 5 seconds before vanishing. I jumped up and ran to the edge of my yard, but there was no more sign of it. It was not too high in the sky and at first I thought it might be either a comet or a drone. There was no tail or trail behind it and since the lights were solid, I discounted both of these ideas. While looking for similar pictures on the net for the last few days it closely resembled a picture taken from Mexico in May 2013.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113197). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Canadian military and radar records answer to the Access to Information Act; historic UFO files are held by Library and Archives Canada. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2014-08-24 → 2014-09-10
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