Triangle over Olds (Canada), AB · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two triangles flying in formation.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #119413). 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 2015-06-04 → 2015-06-21
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August 13, 2015 · 12:20 AM · TRIANGLE
Olds (Canada), AB · Canada
13/08/2015. I was watching the meteor shower in my back yard in Olds, Alberta. At approximately 0020 hours, I witnessed a large winged triangle shaped object moving across the sky from north to south. It had no lights that I could see. It seemed to be surrounded with a visible outline that ‘rippled’ (as if a pebble thrown into a pond) engulfing the shape till the ripples reached the solid shape. While you could see stars through this ripple effect, the triangle shape and wings appeared solid, obscuring the star light beyond as it moved. It was absolutely silent and moved slowly in a gliding fashion. I watched it for 1-2 minutes, or so. I have never seen anything move like that. It made me extremely uncomfortable/anxious, and, once out of my view, I returned to my house. I am a nurse with a master’s degree and partial completion of my PhD.
July 22, 2014 · 1:25 AM · FIREBALL
Olds (Canada), AB · Canada
Hi ufocenter, I drive a truck in Alberta and Saskatchewan. I was heading South on highway 2 between Edmonton and Calgary, near Olds, when I noticed a bright light out my drivers side window, East, very close to 1:25 AM. It travelled North to South. It was the shape of a kidney bean or unshelled peanut. I thought it was a meteor or something hitting the outer atmosphere, but is was too big for that, too close. It streaked across the sky for a short distance, maybe about a 1/5 of the total width of the sky. It then just stopped and disappeared in a kind of glow. My impression is that it skipped off the atmosphere and headed back out to space. It was too big, too close though. When it streaked through the sky it did not leave a trail like a comet does. A very little bit of spark kind of stuff, mostly glow. It glowed green, blue, red, mostly brilliant orange. It only lasted about 25 seconds, at the most. The company I work for has 4 trucks. One of the other drivers was at Olds at the same time, but he didn’t see anything. But talking to one of the other drivers, he did notice a flash in the sky, but did not see it. He was near Suffield, Ab., close to the Sk. Border, and attributed it to something from the military base at Suffield. Shortly after that, our 4th driver texted him ‘did you see that?’ What he saw and where he was, I don’t know yet. But I suspect he was between Calgary and Medicine Hat. That was the route for the night. I think it was a meteorite or whatever its called. It is very curious though how big it seemed and so close. But it wasn’t. The other driver’s were quite East and saw it to the East also. Thank you for your time and website for reporting. Dennis