Light over Powell River (Canada), BC · Canada
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The report, as filed
Hanging in sky for about 10 minutes red light and very twinkly, and the twinkle was very fast...I went back to look again and it was gone..It was hovering over an island that has no people on it called "Harwood"..
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #155139). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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April 9, 2020 · 11:00 AM · DISK
Powell River (Canada), BC · Canada
I was on a sailboat by myself travelling from Sturt Bay to the Powell River government dock in the morning. At approxiamtely 11:00 hours while I was just off Grief Point I noticed two very bright lights about 500-800 feet above the pulp mill/dam. I took my sunglasses off to try and focus, they were glimmering bright like the sun shining on stainless steel and appeared circular disk shaped with a raised portion in the middle maybe equalling about half the total diameter, I can only guess at this because the brightness was different in the middle. The objects were also large, probably over 50 feet in diameter and their distance apart appeared equal to their distance above the ground. As I observed, I also saw what I believed was a local Coast Guard (large red aircraft) surveillance rescue aircraft coming from the south hearing directly towards the craft at a slightly higher elevation. It appeared to fly between the objects. As the aircraft came closed the objects didn't move, it appeared they faded, the glimmering became less and less to dim shapes and then nothing, just the blue sky and cloud behind. It almost looked like they became cloaked with the background sky. Please note, the sun was behind me as I was travelling, possibly accounting for the glimmering on the craft, also I was not looking directly at or at and angle into the sun. I don't know what I saw, but don't think it was a trick of my eyes and the sun. Trying to contact me might be difficult as I am up the coast on my boat, poor cell service and limited access to computers. Who knows what it was…sun dogs?? Take care ((name deleted))
July 30, 2019 · 1:11 AM · FORMATION
Powell River (Canada), BC · Canada
On July 29th, 2019, a friend and I were sitting on a blanket on the lawn of a B & B in the little town of Powell River, British Columbia. The B & B is a block from Marine Avenue, which runs along the sea coast. My friend since high school is a web designer and entrepreneur; I am a working musician. We are both 51 years old. The previous night had been clear and the stars bright, and I had witnessed a spectacular shooting star. I was hoping for a repeat, but we were disappointed by the intermittent cloud cover and slight haziness in the air on this night. The clouds were drifting very slowly to the East. There was no moon and the night was still and silent. Some time between 1:10 am and 1:13 am--now the morning of the 30th--my friend nudged my shoulder, and directed my attention to the sky. Clearing the treetops, a strange light formation glided silently into view, traveling in a straight line from East to West, towards the ocean and directly over our heads. I felt there was no time to fiddle with my phone--and I doubted it would capture the object anyway -- so I left it where it lay and leapt to my feet to better view the formation. The formation was shaped like a boomerang bent at about a 150 degree angle, with its elbow pointed in the direction of travel. It consisted of between five and ten white lights (unfortunately, neither one of us counted the number). The glow of the lights had a gentle, self-contained quality that reminded me of bio-luminescence. They were not as bright as aircraft lights or stars, and were larger--more like orbs than pin-pricks. The rigidity of the formation suggested a structure behind it, but I could not see any fuselage or wings. My friend does not need corrective lenses for distance, and so may have been able to perceive a bit more detail than I. She said afterwards that she thought the lights were slightly oval. She had been reminded of balloons trailing strings, and then she had thought of jelly fish. I did not perceive these "strings", however, as I focused on an individual light, I clearly saw it slide, with a slight arc, a few degrees out ahead of the other, then slide back into it's original position. I say "slide", because the motion did not seem aerodynamic or bird-like, nor wobbly and wind-blown, but rather fluid -- even fish-like. My friend mentioned a "pulsing" of the lights, and I suspect this was her perception of the motion I was seeing. The following point may sound contradictory, but I want to be clear: while I saw this light move relative to the other, the entire formation as a whole was rigid. If the lights were beads on a string, the string neither lengthened, nor shortened. The angle of the "boomerang" did not change; the two halves of the "boomerang" did not flex or wobble. It did not veer, sway, or stretch out and reform such as a formation of birds will do (I've seen countless Canadian geese formations flying over my home in BC, and this was not that). It was not a string of Mylar balloons drifting on a breeze: it was traveling too fast and straight, in a direction opposite to that of the slowly moving clouds, and in a manner that was -- as my friend insisted I mention -- "intentional". I completely agree with her on this point. The formation/object? crossed the the visible sky--an opening in the trees of perhaps 130 feet across--in about 15 seconds. My impression was not one of extreme speed, but something like that of an aircraft. It was well below the clouds, and given that I could discern the lights as orbs as opposed to pin-pricks, and also discern movement of the lights, I feel I was seeing it relatively close-up. Our hands outstretched above our heads and held 18 to 24 inches apart, would have framed it. I estimate it was perhaps 60 feet across, and not more than a few hundred feet above us. It's possible it was a larger object farther away, but these are my impressions. It was absolutely silent the whole time.
June 5, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Powell River (Canada), BC · Canada
My cousin and I were on top of a mountain we climbed to watch the sunset. We were looking out over the ocean which over looks Texada Island and Vancouver Island. We both noticed just over Texada there appeared to be a bright orange ball in the sky. It never dropped height, it just stayed in one place and got brighter and brighter and bigger with a bit of pulsation to it. After speculation of what it could be, we both felt very unpleasant, like some kind of unnatural phenomena was right in front of us. This light stayed for about 45 seconds growing in light, it appeared like it was coming straight at us because of how the light was getting bigger and bigger until it just vanished into thin air, leaving a sparkly humid looking, very small contrail, which was most definitely not from a meteor. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite responsible sounding, and sober minded. We suspect that the witness is a capable observer, and a reliable source of information. PD
April 25, 2001 · 10:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Powell River (Canada), BC · Canada
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April 20, 2001 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Powell River (Canada), BC · Canada
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