Fireball over London (Canada), ON · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were outside on patio at about 10:30 or 11:00ish. It was a cloudy night in the Northern sky. I noticed an orange light traveling slowly NE. I asked my bf if he thought that was one of those orange orbs like we had seen before in that same stretch of sky back on August 22, 2015. This event had 3 distinct groups with different patterns. He thought it was a plane with landing lights going to the airport, since it was going in that direction. About what seemed like 5 minutes later another came and it continued on the exact same path and spaced the same at least 5 possibly more times. He insisted they were airplanes and I was like "no way". Then along came a formation which had 4 orbs and looked like a triangle with a tail (I have video). It slowly floated across the sky going the same speed and following the exact path of the ones prior. The 3rd set came not long after the formation cleared and these came one right after another and there were at le! ast 10 of those. Again, they followed the same path but seemed to go faster but that might just be because they were one right after another. Regrettably, I did not capture those on video. Since they were behind heavy clouds, they were not sharp clear circles except for one that passed by later which was so bright I literally had to squint until it too went behind cloud. When the formation came then it was obvious to me that those were not airplanes but my bf still insisted they were until he saw the video the next day. Again, I feel sick I didn't get the last set on video. I hope I see them again some day! Like I said, we saw them on August 22, 2013, at around 10:30ish. My bf said there were 3-4 stationary in the sky and they started interacting almost playfully. He said, they would shoot off in different directions and seem to fade and reappear too. He called me out so I wouldn't think he was crazy and I just saw one that night. It was just sitting there in one spot for at least 5 minutes. It was very round and bright orange. It then appeared to elongate and looked like a flame and got lighter orange. It seemed to have a white light pulsing from the right side. Eventually it jusy faded and disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120971). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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