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August 4, 2016 · 7:37 PM · CHANGING
Kamloops (Canada), BC · Canada
On WestJet flight 166 from YVR to YEG, we spotted an object out our starboard window, approximately 700-1000 meters from the plane. It was about 40-50 minutes into our flight. We had reached cruising altitude approx. 35k ft. When we first saw it, it looked like a large ball at the front with a long net-like or skirt-like structure trailing it. At first we thought it was a scratch on the window, then it started moving in a flowing like manner. The ball shape at the front was always at the lead of the direction it was moving. Same direction as the plane - or so it appeared. It was black. We were stunned and trying to understand what we were looking at for about 1-2 minutes before I started taking pictures. At that point it had flattened out or turned and appeared flat. The object was by our side for approximately 3 minutes until we past it. It had structure. It was not smoke or a contrail. I can only roughly approximate the size as it was far away but close enough to see detail. 10-15 meters long and 5 meters wide when spread out. We stayed on the plane until everyone had left and asked the pilots if they saw it. They said they did not. Trying to understand what it was. Can't explain it currently. Looking for help or someone that has seen something similar. It was a safety concern. It was close to the plane. Whatever it was, if it got in the engines, it would have been trouble. Thought it might be a drone, but that is high for a drone, especially with the long thing flying behind it. Aerodynamically, the flowing skirt doesn't make sense. It creates drag. Kites use ribbons for stabilizers, not for lift. Only thing similar I can think of is a sail, but the ball thing was at the lead, not the skirt. Photos and video: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zrq9uorr1vbsm46/AACbF_Xk5wWWLRVZ90o1GPSHa?dl=0 The video is faint. You see it similar to the photos when zoomed in on the video on my iPhone. Don't know if you have a way to zoom into the video. A sketch is included, but we need more detail. I'm attempting to sketch it further. (( We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be quite sober minded. We have requested that the other witness submit
August 3, 2016 · 4:10 AM · OTHER
Yarmouth (Canada), NS · Canada
Three white lights on top an one light on bottom a cluster of lights together not moving or flashing.
August 1, 2016 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Port Colbourne (Ontario)(Canada), ON · Canada
My wife and I were about to start a camp fire at the cottage and listen to the C2C podcast on my phone. I went outside first. While I was waiting for her I decided to take a look up at the stars to see if I notice anything as I usually do. Upon gazing for the first minute, I noticed what looked like a very bright star move slowly from right to left across the night sky. I looked for the blinking lights which would rule out anything but a plane but there were none. I called for my wife to come out and look but she was busy with the kids at that particular moment. When she came out I told her what I saw. She dismissed it as a plane. I decided to keep looking up and about 5 minutes later, this time, TWO, bright glowing, what looked like, stars (but brighter) moving across the sky but this time from left to right and the latter one following the leader in exactly the same path it was on. If the front one moved slightly down or up, the other would follow to a tee.! The wife couldn't dismiss this one. She began to look up with me. THEN...over Lake Erie we see a glowing orange light stationary over the treeline. It slowly started moving to the left and just as it was about to go out of sight behind a tall tree on the yard, it simply vanished! Like a bathroom light, it just turned off. Now the wife is LOSING IT! As well as myself, "what did we just see" we said to each other laughing with excitement. I was giving her the "I told you so's" and decided to walk down the property towards the beach on the lake. There....again over the horizon across Lake Erie I spot a second glowing orb which looked exactly like the one that just vanished before our eyes. The wife ran back to the cottage to grab me my phone so I could record what I saw. I did manage to get some film. I have attached what I got. Notice in the second video that the craft moves toward the sound of the fireworks, which you, Mr. Davenport have mentioned many times on Coast.
August 1, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
New Waterford (Canada), NS · Canada
Just saw two strange things in the sky overhead, about 3 minutes apart. What looked like a large ball of light streaked across the sky quickly, then slowed down, then turned slightly and went out over the ocean straight out from the shoreline. The light seemed to be oscillating or pulsating. I watched till it was almost out of sight and as I turned away, what looked, at first, to be a similar craft, followed it in almost the same manner except it paused twice and the light seemed to turn in two directions as if looking for the first one, then turned again and headed in the same direction as the first one. When the second craft turned, I could see a dark shape behind or around the light and I had the impression that it may have been a chopper from the way it moved. That was something that popped into my head as I thought I glimpsed a non-flashing red light as it turned. There were fireworks being set off several blocks away, but far enough that I should have been able to hear something from the aircraft. There were no flashing lights and no sound that I could hear. I thought the first one was a plane in trouble because it came from the direction of the airport, but it was just a big ball of light–it didn’t move or sound like an airplane. It was just weird. I see and hear planes overhead all the time, but none looked or behaved like these.
August 1, 2016 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Mayo (Canada), YT · Canada
Sky cracked open with sound of thunder. Large white triangle zoomed overhead for about 10 or 11 seconds, only as fast as a Boeing 737 in cruise. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2016 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
In July 2016, my girlfriend at the time and myself watched a craft hovering in the sky while we were tako.g the dogs for a walk at West Dean Park in Toronto. I grabbed my phone and started to film it for about 3 to 4 minutes. We uploaded the footage to YouTube. Recently I found another video filmed not far from us that we as from the same date. This led me to assume that it was the same craft. So there are 2 videos from 2 different people from different cities(next to each other) that seemed to have filmed the same craft. The craft was disc shaped and had lights on top and bottom. It hovered slowly and it had a sound of a low buzzing frequency. I've seen a few other strange sightings more recently as well.
July 28, 2016 · 5:55 PM · LIGHT
Milner (Canada), BC · Canada
I was looking towards the back lawn and a rolling rapid white light moved rapidly across the lawn. I saw it very clearly. I don't drink or do drugs and l consider myself rational and sane, educated. I stopped my conversation, as l witnessed this as l was trying to process what l just saw. I am still not certain, but l am open minded, and l do believe in the paranormal. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 3:33 AM · LIGHT
Air Ronge (Canada), SK · Canada
One of the women were shook up that she stayed at the hospital for several hours.
July 24, 2016 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Gimli (Canada), MB · Canada
On the last night of the Gimli Film Festival, in a crowd of hundreds, sitting on the beach of Lake Winnipeg after dark, watching the screening of The Goonies. It was warm, humid, very few clouds (stars and moon were easily visible). About half an hour into the feature I noticed above and to the right of my peripheral (the film screen--which is on the beach--faces west) I saw a fairly bright red light moving West to East in the sky. They were nearly as bright as a distant road flare, or about the brightness of a traffic light. I'm guessing they were no more than about 1 or 2 km away. I watched this red light as it moved in a more-or-less straight line at first moving slowly then about the speed of an airplane, towards the left somewhat behind the top of the screen. What strikes me odd is that there was no discernible sound as you'd expect from any airplane (granted the intermittent sound from the movie speakers may have masked it), nor were the lights blinking at all in any way (as you'd expect from any airplane). At first I thought it might be a drone with a light attached to it but a drone would not have continued travelling so far out over the lake. Within one minute from the moment that first light appeared I see a second identical light, following a similar path, they were perhaps 500 meters apart (or the length of two hands held up). So for a minute or two I watch both objects as they seem to either diminish or speed off into the distance across the lake, and at a higher altitude, possibly into distant cloud cover, but unsure since I recall still being able to make out pinpricks of light before they were completely gone. I estimate their average speed was 250 km/h; sighting lasted under 5 minutes, lights appeared to cross the lake which is about 25km in that direction. I considered taking a video on my phone for evidence but figured surely it must be something ordinary what with all these other people seeing it also. Then again I'm pretty sure if the lights were from an aircraft they would have stayed within view for a lot longer as I have previously seen planes fly across the lake at night; it takes more time for a light to travel out of sight, especially the further it gets. In other words a plane's lights appear to move faster when it is near, and slower towards the distance.... these lights were precisely the opposite--slow when near, faster in the distance. I can rationalize a great many lights or objects in the sky, but I don't have a good-enough explanation for these two. If they were some kind of lit-up balloons they would have stayed visible for a lot longer, and with little to no wind would not even have traveled from the trees, across the beach and over the water in so little time. If they were meteors/fireballs/etc., they'd have fallen in a downward--not upward-direction. If they were planes there'd have been a blinking green light, unless it was taking off or landing then a br! ighter white light. Maybe a military plane has just a steady red light, but then I'd have definitely heard the sound of a jet engine, especially if accelerating to vanish into the distance towards the other side of the lake. But let's suppose it was a plane with a solid red light just it was too high to have been heard... then how could the light have been so unmistakably bright over the beach? Bright enough to distract an entire audience from watching a movie? Not even the Northern Lights managed to do that until the movie was over.
July 24, 2016 · 1:30 AM · OVAL
Canada (west coast; Alaskan cruise), BC · Canada
My husband and I took an Alaskan cruise for our 10th anniversary. It was through the inside passage going past Canada and stopping at Ketchikam, Juneau, and Skagway. We had a cabin with a small veranda on the port side of the ship. I have insomnia so at about 1:30 a.m., I was still awake. My husband was fast asleep and I didn't know what to do with myself so I decided to sit on the veranda. The veranda was very small just big enough for two chairs and a very small table. The veranda was covered by the floor of the veranda on the deck above us so to see directly above the ship you had to lean out. The area directly below the ship and maybe 40 feet out could be seen because the ship had some lights on. The area had fog rolling in in patches. I was looking out over the water, towards the land, and then up at the sky. In between wispy patches of fog, the sky was clear. I started noticing a small "lighter" area in the clear sky that would come from directly above the ship and move more west then go back over the ship. When it went back over the ship I couldn't see it anymore. I decided to get our binoculars that my husband had bought for our trip. They are very expensive binoculars with image stabilizers. I retrieved them and went back outside. I was leaning over the railing trying to see if the "lighter" area would come back and sure enough it did, moving westward again. I looked through the binoculars and couldn't believe what I was seeing. There were 6 dull yellow oval orbs flying in a group. I can only explain the movement was like animals moving together and "jostling" each other. I ran in to wake my husband. He wasn't happy about it, but he went on the veranda half asleep. I explained what I saw but they were gone. He went back to bed. This happened 2 more times. I would see the group coming from over the ship and I would get my husband until he finally said he didn't care if it landed, he didn't want me to wake him again. The ship had 11 decks and on the t! op deck there are no cabins, it's where the main restaurant is and from mid section of ship to the aft end is completely open. I decided to go up to that deck where I can observe directly over the ship. I was a little apprehensive as it was by this time 2 in morning. There were some crew members but I didn't see any passengers. I asked a crew member if they had any lights that shone up toward the sky and he said no. I did not see the lights again.
July 24, 2016 · 12:45 AM · DISK
Hamilton (Canada), ON · Canada
About five seconds had passed, when I then said out loud to my mother, who was sitting next to me, “What is that?” I watched it for about another five seconds, and as I stood up to get a closer look, the light started to move again. As it moved, I got a clearer look at if the light was coming off of anything – it was coming off of a grey disc/saucer shaped object. The object made a slight turn, almost like a U-turn, and then ascended up higher into the sky and came towards my apartment building, flying up and away above it. The whole time it was moving, the whirring sound occurred. I went outside onto my balcony and looked around but I could no longer see it. My mother had not seen anything but she believed me when I told her what I saw. I only observed one saucer but it was moving much faster and stranger than an airplane or helicopter would. I am not sure if anyone else observed this, whether from their balconies or the street below. I am almost positive that what I saw was a UFO. About 5 minutes after the sighting, my cat started acting extremely weird. She started running around the apartment, jumping and sliding on our rug. I don’t know if UFO’s have the tendency to affect animal behaviour, but I found it extremely weird for her to starting acting like this all of a sudden. As for my background, I am a female born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, having recently moved to Hamilton. I am Caucasian.
July 23, 2016 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Caroline (Canada), AB · Canada
First sighting around 2 am, first spotted as a very bright star appearing from the west, fairly low to the horizon maybe 20 – 30 degrees. Bright star appeared to be traveling west to east approximately 100 km’s away from our position (south of rocky mountain house, northwest of Caroline). As the star (at this point identified to be more of a very bright light) traveled west to east, two smaller lights appear behind it forming a equilateral triangle, each light moved in unison, really low orbit and very fast. No sound or light diffraction was noted. The three lights continued to move in unison eventually disappearing over the ridgeline (our POV) to the northeast of us. Might have come within 50 km’s of our position at its closest. Second sighting happen approximately 2 hours later, exact same appearance and characteristics as first sighting however now the three lights travelled north to south and flew directing overtop of us. Once again no sound or light distortion was observed. No aircraft were heard or observed that night (we were pretty deep in the bush and could easily hear objects such as planes). Sighting of ISS. PD
July 18, 2016 · 3:57 AM · CIRCLE
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
On July 18, I woke up and I saw a white light flying object in the sky, not blinking, moving towards the Lake Ontario (north-south). I have seen these type of lights before. I was going to get the camera when at the north of the light, kilometers far back, suddenly a big round light shine. This light was huge, it shined for a second I guess and then went to darkness again. I had never seen something so big. The moon was full shinning on the west. I called the airport. Around 3:57am they told me nothing was flying in the area, until 4 :09 and 4:14 they were propellers on the sky. They suggest me to called transport Canada, which I did. I wonder if more people witness the phenomenon.
July 16, 2016 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sooke (Canada), BC · Canada
I had just picked up my daughter from work from her evening shift. Pulled into the driveway and got out of the car. My daughter disappeared into the house and the clarity of the evening sky and the moon caught my attention. A bright green sphere with a long green tail trailing behind with very defined edges of colour. I noticed a flash of light in the sky. It dropped straight down at a 90 deg angle for about a sec to another 90 deg turn to the North. At a very high rate of speed darted from the South due north directly into the centre of the big dipper and disappeared. Only one was seen. Was higher elevation than a plane but lower than a satellite or shooting star. The trailing green light behind was about half the distance it travelled. as soon as the sphere disappeared the green tail followed and disappeared into the very same spot about a second later. Total time seen was about 10 sec. I live in a rural area. It was a clear evening. The moon was roughly 240 deg in the sky. Cloud cover was negligible.
July 15, 2016 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Ontario (Canada), ON · Canada
In the summer of 2016 at 9pm I was watching a documentary about UFO that camed up on TV. About 9:30pm my 3 Dog's and Myself heard a loud humming sound that came from the outside. Then, it was getting louder and closer to my house. My dogs was aggressively barking at the door to get out. I got up from my chair and looked out my kitchen window were I was seeing some lights! What I was seeing shocked me. There was a giant round UFOs spaceship standing still between my garage and my house, that was about 75 feet between eachother. The sound stopped and the spaceship stood there for about 30 minutes, and about 20 feet from the ground. I was just fixed on it/starring at it. Then all the sudden, it was moving very slowly and smooth over my trees and into the woods, then I didn't see it no more. Before this episode, there was alot going on around my house, my yard, and many of my electrical was going haywire. There is a few other importan! t facts and proof to this episode which is still going on to this day. I really would like someone to explain to me what is going on with my body. I no for a fact there are UFOs being among us which they are manipulating our DNA. Please believe me because I have the prove. Many of us are UFOs and robots in a Human form...Thanks for taking the time to read my report.
July 15, 2016 · 8:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Edmonton, AB · Canada
Was looking north east at fast approaching storm clouds. Noticed a bright light, thinking it was a plane. It was to early in the evening for stars. Continued watching mostly for the storm clouds.then noticed another Light. Then 3 more. They were pulsating lights whith a auora around them. Similar to a light from a flashlight. Three which were in a triangle form. Which from a distance would have had to have been 1/4- 1/2 mile apart. The other lights seemed to come out of the lower lights in the triangle. And sat below the triangle. Approximately the same distance apart as the 3 in the triangle. The lights would appear and disappear separately due to the clouds. When they moved it was in unison. Either up or down ,side to side etc. The lower lights would move similarly. They also could have been in triangular form. Though may not have seen a third light due to the clouds. I have not seen planes or helicopters move in this manner, which is why I felt I should report the incident.
July 15, 2016 · 12:00 AM
Mount Pleasant (Canada), BC · Canada
I wasn't aware of this website, that's why I've not talked about this until now. My husband is a chef and back then he was working nights, so he got home early in the morning and we would sit out on the street and smoke. That night was no different, all of a sudden we both noticed a bright beam light literally shining down from space, it must've been at least 100 feet across. As it was coming towards us, we realized that we wouldn't have had time to get back inside, so we held each other's hand and covered our eyes in our laps. It was close enough that we could feel the heat and I could see it getting brighter through my eyes. Then all of a sudden it was gone, we were both shivering and dumbfounded,amazed. So the next afternoon (same day), I called UBC's astronomy department to report what I saw, but no one got back to me…I don't know if you can tell me anything, but it seemed to correlate with a woman in Deep Cove seeing something similar around the same time frame. Anyways, thanks for letting me get that off my chest!! Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 10, 2016 · 9:11 PM · UNKNOWN
Montreal West (Canada), QC · Canada
Sudden Appearance of Stripes on the Moon On July 10, 2016 at 9:11 pm, I was taking pictures of the moon through my 6-inch Dobsonian telescope (Orion Skyquest). I was using the afocal method, putting an Olympus SZ16 camera up to the eyepiece to photograph what I saw. I was not using my moon filter to dim the brightness of the moon. (I used it later in the evening, but not at that point.) I took a series of nine photographs of the moon at that point. I had taken an earlier series before photographing stars and planets, and a later series after photographing more stars and planets. During this particular series, the striped moon appeared as number #6 of 9 photos at 21:11 and 42 seconds. As I was setting up photo #6 in the series, I had the moon in my sights which I checked by eye. Then I put the camera up against the eyepiece and adjusted it until the moon appeared fully on the LED screen. I had my finger on the shutter button, when suddenly the top of the moon darkened as I watched. Two dark spots appeared at the top of the moon, and then streaked at high speed from the top of the moon to the bottom of the moon, not quite the diameter because it was off center. It left two shadowy stripes that appeared in less than a second. My finger was on the shutter button, I barely hesitated for a fraction of a second, and then I thought, “Branches.” And then I took the picture. I then looked up at the sky. The moon was high above the horizon in a clear field of vision. The trees in my backyard and neighboring yards were to the far left and right. There were no branches obscuring the moon. I would know. I have taken many artistic pictures of the moon behind branches. The view was clear. It occurred to me that a couple of my long, dark hairs floated through the open aperture of the telescope, which is like a cannon barrel, and landed on the mirror. That would have been a problem for me with subsequent photos. The best way to test the situation was to take another picture. Less than two mintues later, at 21:13, I took another picture of the moon. It was clear. When you compare the two pictures, you see that the striped moon has a dark area at the top, as if a cloud settled over it. The stripes have a peculiar jagged aspect, almost like a zipper or a series of stitches. The diameter of the moon is 2158 miles. The stripes sped across the moon off center. My guess is that the stripes covered about 1500 miles in barely a second. Travelling at 1500 miles per second comes out to about 90,000 miles per hour. I showed the photo to my husband, who has a PhD in statistics and is very analytical. He said, “It's branches.” When I discounted that theory, he said, “Two hairs in the aperture.” I told him the hairs quickly disappeared, and hairs do not start at the top and zip across at high speed. Then he said, half joking, “It's two spaceships flying at astronomical speed in formation.” I decided to report it. I am enclosing photo #6 in the series, the striped moon, and photo #7, which is the picture that was taken two minutes later. A Dobsonian refractor always shows a mirrored image, so the only post-processing I did was to flip the image so that the moon appears with the lit side on the right, which is how it actually looked in the sky. I know there is probably a logical explanation, but I can't think of one.
July 10, 2016 · 11:00 AM · EGG
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I have bubble windows over my bath, and had my head up to rinse hair. Sighted on July 10, 2016, approx. 11:00 am. In the north sky, approx 45 degrees, from East to West, a triangle formation, with 5 luminous, shiny, white (but not paper white), slightly lightly squished balls. No blinking lights. One moved slightly off to the side, and stayed with the group. They glided slowly, noticed extensions with black tips on the sides. Sharp and clear, did not seem as high as a local small plane. I'm a birder. They were not flapping, no neck or feet to assume they were snow geese, cranes. Researched photos. Watched for about a minute,till out of range of my window. Did not scare me, just fascinated, but afraid to say anything to anyone, feel I have to tell someone. Hope someone else has seen this.
July 10, 2016 · 1:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Newcastle (Canada), ON · Canada
This particular night, my fiancé and I went for a drive to our favourite small town called Newcastle. Our favourite spot is by the harbour to Lake Ontario. The time was between 1:30 and 2:00AM. It was quiet, no wind and the sky was covered with stars. We got out of the car and I stood in the parking lot facing the lake. I see something in the sky, it was gliding perfectly, slowly, but quickly at the same time. It sparked my interest because it was SO quiet, there were no lights to it either. As it glided above me I stared so intently at it, it was definitely an aircraft, shaped like a boomerang but the odd thing about it was that it was translucent, I could see the stars right through it, but somehow could see the shape of the aircraft moving through the sky. It continued on, going in a straight line quietly heading north west from where we were standing. I pointed it out to my fiancé and he agreed that it was no normal aircraft.
July 8, 2016 · 3:14 PM · UNKNOWN
Scarborough (Canada), ON · Canada
On July 8, 2016, I was on afternoon break in Scarborough, Ontario. There were some co-workers also outside chatting and joined the group After about five minutes while chatting with one co-worker Later the other two co-workers went back inside Looked north of our position about a mile away - just a little east Noticed a low dark roundish object flashing a bright white light moving couple of hundred feet high at 3:14 pm It was moving low coming in from the east heading west at maintaining about the same altitude less than two hundred feet Speed a guess would about ten- twenty MPH It's movements appeared strange as well a bright white flashing light 's intensity I alerted my friend and we both instantly ran through the parking lot north at about seventy yards and stopped and looked up towards it It was now straight in front of us to the north The object was near stationary about less than one mile away I then started to film it while it was stationary Also strange had to point the object to the co-worker who took near a full minute to finally see it ! He stood beside and now could see it near stationary Now it started to rise vertical then stop and hang stationary flashing this bright white light It just continued to climb straight up higher and higher With it's altitude is now at least one thousand feet . Then we now had another co-worker join in witness this strange dark flashing round object - two witnesses He came up behind us and said ' look a flying donut ' ! About every minute now passing by It just continued to climb higher and higher would stop at intervals again remain stationary flashing for about thirty seconds or more ? Being so high without the flashing you would NOT be able to see it at that point The object continued climbed so high We could all no longer see it - gone ! I have attached seven of the best - zoomed in pictures before it rose thousands of feet in about one minute As well a short video clip that captures this unknown The sighting ended at 3:27 pm by the last picture time stamp taken Sighting lasted approximately 13 minutes
July 6, 2016 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Grande Prairie (Cutbank Bridge Campground)(Canada), AB · Canada
Group of us camping at cutbank camp site. Bridge visible from our site. 3 am we were all watching what looked like the northern lights. One of us Saw a shooting star emerge from northern light cloud formation. Zig zagged at unimaginable speed. Light went out and reappeared at tree top level at our camp. Light moved in a descending s curve past three trees then disappeared. Reappeared behind us over the trail into camp. It made several s curve maneuvers then disappeared. Reappeared across hi way above and behind tree line again making extremely quick movements and direction changes. Could have been several objects working in formation and turning their lights on and off together.
July 4, 2016 · 3:30 AM
Nanaimo (Canada), BC · Canada
I went outside for a smoke ,looked up to admire stars ...and I saw a star darting in and out .....drifting too fast, and i thought what the heck!! watched it as I knew from past experience my iPhone does not record the sky in detail, so thought I would soak it up for myself (fill my eyes) .... I watched it.... Clear as day.....lately i have grown to dislike conspiracy theories as they are bit nuts and trouble in my eyes, and people turn on themselves....so i was shocked to look up and see this… i only want to know if someone sees the same thing please. Please contact me if you do
July 4, 2016 · 1:00 AM · FLASH
Upper Kintore (Canada), NB · Canada
There were no sounds or crafts actually seen or heard. Source of report provides no contact information. PD