Circle over Ottawa, ON · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I saw a circular UFO at night with many colours like it had an exterior made of all TV screens playing moving geometric patterns. I grabbed a scope/monocular but it was hard to know if it was focused at night but what I saw when it was focused looked like moving hexagons of all colours on the entire exterior of the UFO. The colours were like red, blue, green, yellow, pink, and looks like many thin lines, as if you were to keep tracing hexagon, and then the hexagons get bigger and bigger but every layer is a different color, and all the different lines were moving in word out word around and around, Like that it looked like some kind of light show on the TV screen of all moving geometric patterns. From a distance with the naked eye, it looked like it was twinkling different colours of red, green, blue, yellow, and it slowly moved farther and farther away and got smaller and more faint. And me and my wife watched it for about 15 minutes. So it wasn’t an airplane. And it wasn’t a satellite. And there’s no tower there. So, unless there’s a blimp or a hot air balloon with a television exterior or like a projector inside,
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175422). 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 2023-04-12 → 2023-04-29
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