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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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February 12, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Fredericton (Canada), NB · Canada
On the evening of February 12th, 2018, I was driving back from my fathers house to my mothers house, a drive I’ve done routinely my entire life. Once I pulled into the subdivision where my mother lives, I notice two sets of two lights on the horizon, one set higher than the other. Behind my mothers subdivision is nothing but forest, and I have never noticed towers in that direction. The lights were large, with a golden orange appearance, seemingly looking like two sets of vehicle headlights floating over the tree line. My mothers subdivision is small, and as I drove down the hill towards the lights they disappeared over the crest of the hill. I turned the corner and up another hill to get another vantage point where I could see the lights once again, making sure not to mistake them with street lights. I knew the lights were something in the distance, not something within the subdivision itself. I made my way back to the highest crest of the hill where the su! bdivision starts, and from what I saw, the separation between lights had grown, or moved. I studied them with binoculars for 5 minutes before pulling into my driveway for the night. From my driveway, I could still see the highest sets of lights still hanging low on the horizon. I tried to forget about them, told myself they were just towers I had been missing. 2 hours later I went for a cigarette in my driveway and there were no lights visible, and since then I have yet to see them again. At the far back of my mothers subdivision are two woods paths, both of which I hiked up close to a kilometer in. We had rain two days prior, with temperatures dropping to -20 at night. Both trails were untouched with a thick layer of ice covering the snow, meaning no one had been back there for at least a few weeks. I checked all recent google imagery maps, GeoNB and aerial photography of the area and there is nothing back there, no towers at all. Regards
January 27, 2018 · 3:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Toronto, ON · Canada
I went out to my balcony and saw this formed in the clouds. This is the 2nd time I am seeing something in the sky from that direction in the last week. Looks like a cloud, in our opinion. PD
January 24, 2018 · 7:05 PM · FIREBALL
Keswick (Canada), ON · Canada
I sensed to look up in sky behind the church facing the lake. Out of nowhere a green circular floating light appeared above the tree. It moved to the right slowly at first then floated in joilt like movements up and down.. ..tge it dropped a bit....then disappeared in a vanished like manner. Like out of nowhere...poof, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 23, 2018 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Trail (Canada), BC · Canada
While visiting my former home town of Trail, BC, I had the strangest experience on the evening of Tuesday, January 23, 2018. We were in a house in the Gulch, along Rossland Avenue, near St. Anthony's Church. Two of us were seated on a couch watching television. Starting around 9:30 p.m., my viewing was occasionally interrupted by intermittent flashes of bright blue-white light shining into the bathroom window, which faces northwest. The television is next to the hallway leading to the bathroom. The light would flash in the window for a second or two, then stop. A minute or two later, it would do it again. It kept doing this at irregular intervals. At first, I thought it was a neighbour playing a prank with a bright spotlight, and I found it quite irritating as it repeated several times, sort of a sweeping motion or flashing. But then it occurred to me that the light was shining downward toward the window, and I thought that it could be someone playing with a light on the hillside below Highway 22, or possibly lights high on a vehicle (like on top of a truck or snowplow) on the highway, except there are a lot trees that would be in the way and it would be an incredible inconvenience for someone to be hiking up there in a snowstorm. In addition, the lights were too bright to have come from vehicles as far away as the road. As the flashing persisted, I then realized that the light was coming from much higher than that, as if from the sky. That piqued my curiosity, so I went to the back door of the house to see if there was some issue with the power lines. It had been snowing heavily all day and evening, so I wondered if the storm was shorting out wires or flashing over insulators and causing arcs. I stood and looked at the lines for about half a minute, but seeing no further flashing, went back inside. By then, it was a little after 10 p.m. Shortly after returning to my place in front of the television, more lights flashed through the window, brighter than previously. So, I went into the bathroom to look through the window to see if I could find the source. Still, I couldn't see where they were coming from. My wife, who had seen me check outside and then check the bathroom, asked what I was doing, and I described the flashing lights I had seen. She then explained that she could see lights flashing on the bed throughout that time. The lights seemed to be coming in the bedroom window, which faces southwest. The ceiling light had been turned on with the dimmer switch turned down low, so she had assumed that the dimmer circuit was somehow causing the light to flicker brightly and creating an optical illusion. From my vantage point, I couldn't see into the bedroom. From her vantage point, my wife couldn't see into the bathroom. Neither of us thought to mention the peculiar lights to the other. Around 11 p.m. our area of the city began experiencing power outages lasting up to about 10 minutes each. I'm pretty sure they were caused by the heavy, wet snow that was accumulating, and not in any way connected to the flashing lights. However, each time the power went out, I looked out the windows to see how much of the neighbourhood or the city was affected. But at no time did I see any more blue-white flashes. They had ended by about 10:30 or a little earlier. The next morning, while I was shovelling the previous night's snow from our walks, a neighbour asked if we heard the "weird noises in the sky last night." I asked her what the noises were like and she described a type of whirring or trilling sound that was unlike any she had heard before. She said that this was around 9:30 when she went to have a smoke on her porch. She didn't see any lights, but she said that the sound was overhead and frightened her enough that she cut short her break and went inside for the rest of the night. When I was outside and when I looked out the windows the previous evening, I could see that the overcast sky was low on the hillsides, below 500 meters (we were at about 425 meters elevation). If there was something up there shining lights, it would have to have been pretty low to penetrate the heavy cloud cover and snow. I wonder if anyone else in the area saw or heard anything. (Please note: I filed a similar report with ufobc.ca after returning home from our trip. This is a copy of that report, edited slightly for clarity. The ufocentre.com website was not working at that time.)
January 21, 2018 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Calgary (Canada), AB · Canada
I was out on my patio and heard a buzzing sound or pulsing sound and wondered where it was coming from in the building (3 story condo 130 units). The sound got louder (coming toward me I guess) until the craft passed over or near the building. At first I thought it was a sound coming from the building and wondered what it was. But I soon realized it was not a building sound but something flying over head. When it passed over I heard a woosh sound. I heard no conventional engine sounds at all just the buzzing or pulsing sound. There were no lights that I could see on the craft. Very very odd to be sure.
January 20, 2018 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
Disclosure: ((deleted--not high quality)) iphone that i don’t know how to effectively use. I was able to get the more distant ones coming in our direction, travelling NE. That night CTV news reported strange lights at Yonge/Sheppard, 10pm news. Local police chalking it up to a hobbyist w/ an expensive toy... In total, my mother and I witnessed 12 of them. We live in the NW part of the city. We are located close to the highways and airport, however these objects did not have the shape of airplanes, nor did they make any sound - an entire line of fhem and no sound. At one point my mothers voice faded away as did the sounds of conversation from the tenants in the parking lot below us. That is when I noticed one bulb-orb was bright white emitting more light than the rest, not just glowing. I barely noticed the first three bc we were having a smoke and chatting; they were passing directly over us at that point. I could see more coming and ran in to the apt to get the phone...i came back out to photo the end of the line which was just travelling over us by that time but the phn woudn’t work - I thought it was over but then another light started coming up frm the horizon (7:35pm) and before I knew it another line was forming, coming our way. This is what I was able to capture. I had frequent pauses and panic trying to work the cell phone. I got a really good look at one orb-bulb. It was almost like I could see into it. My mother was with me and witnessed everything.
January 18, 2018 · 3:20 AM · FORMATION
Fort Erie (Canada), ON · Canada
I also noticed the Flag in the yard was moving in the opp. direction. The object was gliding then stopped for about 2 seconds. Then it was gone! Just like that Gone! I never saw anything like that in my life. What was it?
January 10, 2018 · 7:20 PM · CIRCLE
Oakland (Canada), NB · Canada
Me my wife and children see a very bright light in the Southern sky that hovered for a couple minutes. Then all of the sudden it flew off very fast, faster than any plane or helicopter.
January 1, 2018 · 12:05 AM · SPHERE
Oshawa (Canada), ON · Canada
Approximately 0005, a slow moving, very bright red orb/light moved in a East to West, then North to South trajectory that dropped slowly out of sight line - did not see any further movement after monitoring for minutes to see if it would head towards atmosphere.
December 21, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Richmond Hill (Canada), ON · Canada
All I can really say to describe it, is that it was the size of a golf ball in the sky reddish orange and was blinking and moving horizontally ( but way faster then a plane could ever move) .. Date may be flawed. Could be December 21st. PD
December 21, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Richmond Hill, ON · Canada
All I can really say to describe it, is that it was the size of a golf ball in the sky reddish orange and was blinking and moving horizontally ( but way faster then a plane could ever move) ..
December 20, 2017 · 5:45 PM · CIRCLE
Smiths Cove (Canada), NS · Canada
On my way home from work on the eve of Dec 20th, a round ball of light outlined in red, soared across the sky in front of me. It happened fast and when I tried to follow it with my eyes it went out of site. It seemed quite low. I wonder if it could have been an asteroid or meteor. It didn’t look like a craft. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 20, 2017 · 12:06 AM · DISK
Caithness (Canada), NB · Canada
I was out on my front deck when the sky flashed. It looked like lighting. I thought lighting in December was strange. So I checked the weather and it was not calling for any at all. The flash happened again 2-3 times in a 10 minute time period. I was looking up waiting for more lightning when my boyfriend happened to notice a ball of light moving in the sky. Neither of us had ever saw nothing like it. It was obviously different then what a plane or satellite looks like. We continued to observe and at times saw at least 3-4 lights on it. It would move quickly and then disappear for a few seconds, then appear again. We decided to try and get a video of it. When I opened the camera on my Iphone, it started focusing on the moving object as a figure. I am going to submit the videos, which were taken from the front deck of my home. It was a clear December night, and there were tons of stars in the sky but the videos only picked up the moving ball of light. We live in an area with a lot of deer. While this went on, two deer stood in our yard and honked for about 5 straight minutes. I am not sure if it was related to the sighting or not. I wish the videos were better quality. I have only about 1 minute recorded, but the light was visible on and off for approximately 1 hour. I am convinced that we saw was a UFO, so I started doing my research and there’s been other people report similar sightings over the years so I felt I should too.
December 18, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Calgary (Canada), AB · Canada
It was winter 2017, i went outside with a fellow resident. he sat down at 1 of the benches on our buildings patio. I stood instead of sit and staired out east into the night sky. it snowed a little that day and were remnants of low hanging clouds. i could see several miles into the stars. as i stood watching one star. it was about 7-8 miles away because i knew the approximate distance because the star out east came several miles toward me ,at that time i could tell it moved into earths atmosphere and just stopped about 5 miles away from me. at that time i asked my roomate if he was watching he said no. i knew it wasnt the space station because it came to a halt. i was going to look away when all of a sudden it darted south at an incredable speed. i was going to turn around when 2 fireballs went back and forth through some low lying clouds just 100 meters from me. they went south then reappeared going north. they were completely round about 25 foot diameter. another thin they were burning and each had a central flame and the flames stood up and didnt bend with movement. there was an errie silence like the quiet after fireworks.i had a sense, the original star could see me watching it from quite a distance. my friend was facing away at the time and so there goes my witness. after a period of a year i aquired severe arthritus, in my knee and a hole in my other foot down to the bone,also cellulitus in both legs. i was highly athletic most of my life. this is before covid i am still wondering what the fireballs were sent to warn me either about getting imobile or somthing else i dont know. i have had 3-4 interaction with ufos since 5 years old.there where several times in my life which were quite substantial and hard to beleve. the incidents that happened to me in my youth are worth know. both my parents died when i was 9 years old and always felt personal with my experiences
December 16, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Sault Ste Marie (outside of)(Canada), ON · Canada
My mom and I are driving towards the highway in the country and see an extremely bright light that was flashing (like one of those sparklers where you can light it and hold it until it burns out) and moving really quickly. It went flying over and past the car so we decided to take some back roads and see how far we could follow it, it was flying pretty low to about the treetops. It changed direction in a jerky way and would disappear and appear beside where it was last when it would change direction. We followed it for about 4-5 minutes and lost sight of it. We kept driving down the back roads though and in about two or three of the fields we saw a low flying and moving flashing light. These weren't as bright as the first one and they were more flashing colors instead of the sparkler light color. These would blink and flash a few colors, like red and white and move quickly around the field until we kept driving because it would fly to a point we couldn't see it anymore (like it would disappear and one was flying through the field just passing it, it seemed like). There were NO houses around, NO reflective lights or light poles, NO kind of Christmas decorations. These were in empty fields.
December 15, 2017 · 8:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Riverview (Canada), NB · Canada
20:10. Looking southwest dark clear night. Object triangular in shape traveling At high rate of speed. Also very high in the night sky. Higher than commercial Aircraft travel. Object was a well defined triangular shape as it came closer still Traveling high in the atmosphere in a northwest direction. No lights visible ust a grey Hue on the underside which stood out against the clear dark sky. No lights, no sound, No contrail, object traveling very fast, covered a big distance in mere seconds Husband and I both witnessed it. Thought afterward maybe stealth bombrt? No idea what we saw, very interesting and freaky at same time cool though
December 14, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
These UFO sightings are just incredible! Dec 8 and Dec 14 sighting in same location. Accompanied off and on with three surrounding, smaller UFOs. Lasting 2 hours or more THEN RESUMING IN SAME LOCATION at pre-Dawn to Dawn. Beginning 11:15 p.m. - then returning TO THE SAME SPOT in the pre-Dawn to Dawn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgGWhIfqsZc Both at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOWNk0PiyV4L1C8rGQiPfsw
December 7, 2017 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Lacombe (Canada), AB · Canada
Low in the southern horizon, just about the roof line, I saw a light go across the sky and turn off. The light had to have been going fast to make the distance in the very short time line. It turned off as soon as I noticed it, but kept doing in a western direction. We spoke via telephone with the witness, principally to confirm the date of his sighting, and he seemed to us to be quite sincere, and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
December 6, 2017 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I am a sky watcher and also an air show enthusiast and have never seen something like this before. Would love an explanation!
December 3, 2017 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Langely (Canada), BC · Canada
We were outside taking our dog out to use the bathroom and we also took our camera outside too. We were taking pictures of normal nature stuff then we saw a weird black shape in the sky. We took a picture and when we zoomed in we saw a black craft oval shape on the top half and a skinny rod shape connecting to another piece of the black ship. This truly scarred me when I saw the picture.
November 30, 2017 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Sydney (Canada), NS · Canada
WHILE LEAVING SYDNEY, NS, AIRPORT, I NOTICED 3 LOW LIGHTS OVER TREE LINE ALL FLASHING AT OFFSET TIMES AND A FAIR DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER. I THOUGHT IT WAS LIGHTS FROM A TOWER, BUT REALIZED THEY WERE MOVING SLOWLY, BUT IN UNISON ACROSS THE SKY. THEY WERE VISIBLE JUST ABOUT THE ENTIRE DRIVE TO HOWIE CENTER. THEY WERE WHITE WITH NO OTHER COLOR, BUT FUNNY HOW THEY WERE FLASHING AND ALWAYS THE SAME DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 25, 2017 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Caraquet (Canada), NB · Canada
When travelling in Caraquet, boulevard St-Pierre, on that day, I witnessed strange lights flying in the sky about 500 feet in the air, and I would say it could be 1000 feet from me when I saw those strange light first. It looked like a straight row of very, very brilliant white lights, like modern LED lights. It was travelling at a regular speed, from South to Northeast. I saw it for a few seconds in my car, and then it disappeared behind the trees along the road near the old CO-OP store. I got in a store for a glass I had ordered sooner. About 10 minutes later I saw the same set of lights for about 5 seconds, by the Carrefour de la Mer, and it was going straight for Caraquet Island. It then disappeared from sight as I was watching. Some said it could be a drone, but it was quite large for a drone, and it vanished into thin air. A drone would not have done that. It could have dropped quickly, but not dissapear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 24, 2017 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Medicine Hat (Canada), AB · Canada
A ball of light, like a snow plow in the winter throwing snow out both sides. In the trail were three other yellow balls of light way behind and spaced apart. At the end was another ball of yellow light. No pieces falling, very slow moving, 8 seconds of travel time across the full sky.
November 20, 2017 · 5:03 PM · DISK
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
Object was all black, no lights or exhaust, no markings. The unusual thing was that it wobbled as it travelled south at about 50 km\hr. Its wobble was similar to that of a coin that has been spun and is about to come to a rest. There was a helicopter that was heading east across the trajectory of the unknown object and it seems to me the pilot should have seen the object because it was so close to the helicopter. But it seemed as though he could not see it. I phoned traffic control at the International Airport to see if they got it on radar. NavCanada got back to me and said they spoke to the pilot and he said he saw nothing. NavCanada played back the radar recording and there was nothing on their radar except for the helicopter. I am 50, married with children, work full time. I have a University degree and two College diplomas.