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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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December 6, 2015 · 7:46 AM · LIGHT
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
Was driving northbound on Highway 416 (near Kemptville, ON) and noticed 3 red lights high up in the sky looking north towards Ottawa. The three lights were red and flying in a pattern and looked to be moving independently of one another (as in not fixed to one body). Lights were in a triangular pattern. Lights would stay solid red (and only red), and then blink out and back in, but not in a regular pattern. Perhaps solid for 5 seconds, then a blink out, and back on fast. All three lights would not blink out at the same time, they would alternate irregularly. Thought it was flares at first, but then realized the lights were tracking north. Likely not a plane as there were three in formation and did not have a plane lighting blink pattern. Also not the radio towers off along the highway, I could see the towers quite well, this was was higher up in the sky. Lights were not super bright, but did move quickly north towards Ottawa. Seen by my partner (briefly) as well. Possibly a nighttime sighting? However, source of report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time of the event. PD
December 4, 2015 · 10:20 PM · FLASH
Gilchrist (Canada), ON · Canada
I was driving Southbound on Highway 11 between Orillia and Barrie Ontario around 10:15 PM on Friday December 4, 2015. As I was descending into a stretch known locally as "Gasoline Alley" I noticed a streak of light in the sky to the left. It was a long thin line of bright white light that seemed to start somewhere over or near Barrie and move North East towards Orillia. It reminded me of the Enterprise (Star Trek) going from full stop to warp speed and then disappearing. Seconds later there were 2-3 (possibly more) streaks doing exactly the same thing, like a fleet of ships. I realize these may have been meteors, but I've seen meteors before and these streaks seemed different to me. There was no ball of light at the head or streaking behind it. It was a perfect pencil thin white line. Also, CFB Border (air force base) is very close to this area. When I looked at a map I realized that if a ship had been hovering above the base and then shot off North East, it would have gone parallel to Highway 11 to my left exactly as I had seen.
December 4, 2015 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
At approximately 6:30 pm PST, with clear visibility to the east, a couple and their daughter from Victoria, BC, were gazing out at the eastern evening sky from inside their house, when they observed a bright orange circular light, orb like in appearance traveling across the sky directly overhead towards them from east to north west. This was observed for about 20 seconds. It was an extremely bright light, unlike anything else they had ever observed in the night sky before. There were other aircraft visible in the night sky and they were more distant, so the orange light appeared to be much lower down. As the light passed overhead, it changed to a more northerly direction and seemed to climb to a higher altitude. At one point, the light seemed to become stationary, gained altitude, then grew dimmer and eventually vanished. Approximately ten minutes later, while the family was still gazing out, a second slightly more intense light appeared. It seemed to be lower on the horizon, and traveled overhead in a more direct east to west trajectory. The couple opened their window to see if they could detect any sound, but it was silent. The second sighting seemed to last about 20 seconds before the light vanished into a cloud bank. The intensity of both lights was much brighter than the brightest star in the night sky. The size of the objects appeared to be about 10 times the diameter of the brightest star. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be exceptionally sober-minded. We suspect he is a very good, and reliable, witness. PD
December 2, 2015 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Alberta (rural), AB · Canada
Lens flares. PD
November 30, 2015 · 1:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Mississauga (Canada), ON · Canada
Today, Nov 30, 2015, in Mississauga, Ontario. Saw a square floating rectangle for two seconds heading North West. It floated toward building and went behind. I was southbound on Hurontario and stopped in my van by square one. I looked around to see if anyone else seen it. I looked for power lines. It had been way above. I looked for cranes. None. It was about 10 stories up, and grey/black. It was I can only assume ... the size of a semi truck. No lights. No noise. Time was around 1:30pm. As I was processing what I saw...another came. Exact same path. Same look. Same speed.. Disappeared behind building just the same. I can not explain or process what I saw. I didn't see a helicopter carrying this. Just a big dark rectangular box. Followed 20 seconds later by another??? I watched the skies the rest of the day...nothing.
November 29, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Victoria (Canada), BC · Canada
A Light twinkling in the sky floated and changed position every few minutes. It was the shape of a triangle/tree like, with orange, white and green lights. It floated over the city and moved forward and backwards and over the course of an hour it had moved across the sky from south to north. I Tried to use binoculars but they were outdated, fuzzy and I could not see the actual form, just the lights. There was no sound. Our city noted the police department could be testing drones however I don't think they can go that high or have a battery life of that long. After 2 hours I had to go to sleep however the object was still in the sky, but I don't know for how long. Usually there are aircraft in the area no matter what day of the week, but there was none this night which is very unusual. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 28, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
St. Fracois Xavier (Canada), MB · Canada
On Saturday November 28th, 2015, my 17 year old brother and I were driving out to my mother’s house 20 minutes outside of Winnipeg. Having grown up out there, I was very familiar with the night sky. Driving west down Hwy 26, I noticed 2 lights in the sky that didn’t seem right. They were too large to be stars, too close to be satellites, and too stationary to be airplanes or helicopters. After about 2 minutes the one on the right seemed to vanish completely. The one on the left stayed bright for a couple more seconds before slowly diming, until it was gone.
November 28, 2015 · 10:00 AM · CHANGING
Calgary (Canada), AB · Canada
Beautiful, clear, sunny morning sky....Looked outside kitchen window and thought it was strange to see in what appeared to be a very small cloud in the sky. No other clouds could be seen. Watched the shape change from circular to oval to oblong when the cloud broke into two in a matter of seconds! The lower cloud appeared to light up like eletricity was running through it (similar to when you see lightning in the daytime). The light then slowly left a trail heading downwards then hooked upwards leaving a impression of what looked like a fishing hook! Then it slowly faded away! Was not a vap trail as a few where visible at time of sighting! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 27, 2015 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Vancouver (Canada), BC · Canada
What appears to be a very bright star changing from green to red to blue is shining right now, looking south east over Vancouver. Looks amazing and I have been watching it for 45 minutes! What is that? Not a satellite as that would fly past. This is stationary and is still there. You cannot miss it. Very clear sky tonight. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hi Peter, Yes, that was Sirius. I hadn't seen it change colours like that before. Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) Sighting of Sirius? PD
November 26, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
I may have reported this incident already a couple of days after the event occurred, but since it's been 2 years since the event, I forget if I had reported it here or elsewhere. I'm reporting the sighting now even in the case I had reported it here 2 years ago, but forgotten that I had. I tried to report my sighting to several sources but not sure what source was the 'correct' or reliable one. What I had witnessed that day is still fresh in my mind, as if I had seen it just yesterday and I'm still baffled as to what it was (although I have kind of made up my mind that it was something other worldly). On my way driving home from a evening dinner with my wife, we stopped at an intersection at a red light with no cars in front of us (front of the line) with very possibly no cars behind us and little or no cars going through the intersection. The sky was clear (no clouds) and dark (black sky). Then, as if a light switch had flipped on and in the corner of my eye, I noticed a bright white light very high in the sky and off in the distance. Then in an instant that light seemed to beam directly down towards the ground and did so very quickly and appeared to leave a trail of light as it moved to the ground. As quickly as the light appeared it had moved towards the earth and disappeared out of sight. There was no sound that I had noticed with the light. It definitely was not a meteor or something as the way it moved was as if it was 'warp' speed (light really high up in the atmosphere then beamed straight downwards in a straight line towards the ground). I had asked my wife if she had just seen that and she agreed that she did. It was something that was completely unexpected and left us both in wonder at what we had just witnessed. My mind immediately thought ufo or aliens but I did try to honestly think if it could of been a natural phenomena, but I couldn't think of anything natural that would match the description of what I had witnessed.
November 24, 2015 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Nanaimo (Canada), BC · Canada
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 17, 2015 · 3:30 AM · CYLINDER
Montreal West (Canada), QC · Canada
Nov 17, 2015 in Montreal West, Quebec, at 3:30 am I got up to take pictures of rising planets from my upper floor window with an easterly view. I saw a red blinking light. It was flying from due east headed in a southeasterly direction. I assumed it was an airplane, but then it suddenly reversed direction and started flying back due east. Also, it was lower in the sky than most airplanes. At one point, it was partially obscured by the bare branches of a large tree. After it cleared the tree, I was able to get it in my camera viewfinder (but no time to take a picture). My zoom lens has 60 x magnification. For the few seconds that I observed it under high magnification, I saw a long cylinder that was lit up with translucent red light from one end to the other. I did not see any wings on the object. Object then curved to fly due north before leaving my field of vision. There may be a logical explanation for it, but the flying behaviour was a bit bizarre. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 9, 2015 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
North Vancouver (Canada), BC · Canada
This was a large round hot? object in the sky...with two long fiery jets from the back of it...and on the front (it was like a disc/ball) it looked very bright/hot too. This was not like an airplane and was travelling down towards the horizon...but wasn't falling or moving fast like a meteor. It lasted about a minute and we kept moving up the road to keep it visible.
November 8, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Portage La Prairie (N. of)(Canada), MB · Canada
I saw a bright object I believed to be a meteor flash down northwest of the highway. It was very large and it flashed white. I didn't think much of it until I came up behind a truck which appeared to be having light problems as the tail lights and headlight were flashing on and off. My car was fine. The truck turned off the highway and disappeared down a gravel road north. Suddenly another flash of light from the south side of the highway caught my eye. The light looked like it was coming from the ground and it resembled a rocket or firework. It went too high in the sky to be a firework. I thought it may be another meteor, but something seemed weird about the whole event. The second light was also large, but it was green and red instead of white. I have seen meteors and meteor showers, but I never have seen two that big or colourful. I thought this was worth reporting. It may be nothing, but two large meteors, but in conjunction with the car lights flashing on and off...kind of weird. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 8, 2015 · 2:50 PM · OTHER
Wallaceburg (Canada), ON · Canada
My sister and I were driving west on the back road from Wallaceburg to Walpole Island. I all of a sudden noticed a white shape up high in the clear, blue sky, no clouds. There are some trees but this was way up high beyond the tree line. It was traveling downward. What's really weird is that it looked just like what they are calling a missile from yesterday, except it was travelling straight downward. I can get my sister to submit her description as well. I pointed at it and my sister seen it. We watched it and I said "Do you see a plane or what is in the front? Do you see that aura around it?" I could not see the plane but a sort of vague white shape was in the front of what looked like white chemtrails. I drove slow so we could watch it. It was moving straight downwards to earth but didn't really seem to be travelling very much, didn't move much, moved very slowly, despite the chemtrail behind it. Weird that it was directionally going straight downwards to earth. I looked away very briefly to watch the road and it seemed suddenly farther away. I kept watching it and it continued it same downward movement. I had to stop at a stop sign and the object disappeared in that few seconds. We could not find it in the bright, cloudless sky anywhere. The object and it's very short chemtrail were gone. To me, it looked just like what was seen on video the day before, no plane visible at all, some whitish thing up front with a white loop of chemtrail with a short tail of chemtrail behind it. I didn't see that video until just now and it reminded me of what we watched today so I figured I would send in this description. It did not look as dramatically huge. It was quite a bit smaller than the video I seen of that "missile". There are a lot of chemtrails around here. Sometimes you can see a plane in front and sometimes not - hidden, camouflaged, and/or with an aura and then sometimes they disappear right in front of you. After this object disappeared and within the next minute, my sister spotted a chemtrail plane coming from a different direction in the sky. This one looked like the normal grey chem trail planes with no markings. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
November 7, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bowen Island (Canada), BC · Canada
This was unbelievable. I live on Bowen Island on the west coast, I was sitting on the couch this evening when from the corner of my left eye I saw a bright orange light. I went to the back of the house where the bedroom is located and I saw what looked to me like a plane on fire. It was a bright orange ball of what looked like fire travelling fast across the sky. Then ... it just stopped. A few seconds later it carried on toward the ferry terminal over Snug Cove. Then another one appeared from the same direction, then another and another. Over 15 minutes about 12 of the objects flew over my house or just off to the north. It was unreal, when I realized the first one was not a plane on fire my paranoia kicked in and I immediately thought it was a missile. I felt progressively worse after about 7 of these things because to me one is a sighting but 12 is an invasion or at-least a serious desire to demonstrate that they know your watching. They definitely wanted! to be seen, low in the sky and all travelling from the same direction and flying toward West Vancouver like 12 balls of fire. I would be shocked if thousands of people did not witness this and I would be lying if I didn't say that it scared me.
November 7, 2015 · 3:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Wallaceburg (Canada), ON · Canada
I was sitting in the passenger seat while my sister was driving and it was bright daylight. And she said 'Look at that' so I looked. What I seen was, I couldn't really understand what I seen because it looked like a aircraft that was emitting two chem trails. Instead of the two chem trails forming a straight line behind the aircraft, they formed a diamond shape with an open space between the white lines. It was hard to see what exactly what exactly was emitting that diamond shaped trail which was moving downwards at an almost imperceptible rate. As we were turning on a curve, we tried to keep our eyes on it and only removed our eyes for a split second to watch the road and when we turned back to where the thing was, it was absolutely gone.
November 4, 2015 · 7:50 PM · UNKNOWN
London (Canada), ON · Canada
I was walking toward downtown in my city in London, ON, Canada, and I stopped to take a brake while walking along a path at the Thames River. As I sat down to take a break for a few moments I looked into the starlit sky. At first I observed the usual stars.... then in an instant, I seen what looked to be a shooting star streak across the sky in a horizontal direction. I have seen a few occurrences like this so I thought it was another amazing moment looking into the sky. Then afterward about five minutes later I noticed what looked to be a star like shaped object, glistening in the sky just like all the others, but this star seemed to be moving around slightly. I quickly thought to myself to grab my smartphone and record this phenomena, as I did so the sky was so black that only darkness was able to be seen from my smartphone video recording app. So I began to record the object in the sky anyhow. Then after about ten minuets I decided to take out my other cell ! phone to take some pictures as best as I could. This object traveled slowly in the sky then would stop for a few moments then would slowly move again. Then this star like object traveled in a circle as I watched closely in the sky as I observed sitting on the pathway bench. Then an aircraft began to travel in the same vicinity with the regular flashing lights that people normally seen when observing aircraft's in the sky. I continued to watch this star like object move and when someone walked along the pathway, this star shaped object stopped in place looking just like a regular star in the nights constellation. After the person walked off the pathway out of sight, this star shaped object began to slowly move around again in slow semi circular movements. At 20:10pm, I continued to walk to finish my errands, and I am about to go back to the pathway to observe if there's any more unknown objects in the sky.
October 29, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Edson (Canada), AB · Canada
Was looking into the sky while driving on the highway and then all of a sudden this light appeared. It looked like the planet Saturn. (A large ball with a ring around it) My boyfriend saw it too. It was not there very long. Craziest thing I have ever seen. I could not believe it looked. The moon was big and bright and this flash ( which was not far from the big dipper) was twice the size of the moon. (which was full the previous day) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 29, 2015 · 1:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Mississauga (Canada), ON · Canada
I was travelling to an interview at Burnhamthorpe Rd./Hurontario Rd.. I had this in my calendar and can confirm time and date. I was travelling from Mississauga/401 area south-east for an interview at Burnhamthorpe and Hurontario rds. For some of the trip I had a high vantage point and saw clear down to Lake Ontario. I saw two rectangular shapes moving slowly from west to east. They seemed to follow the lake front. They were higher than buildings, so perhaps 40-100 stories or higher in the air. They were the size of 6 story buildings.. very large rectangles in comparison to nearby buildings. I watched carefully but I could not see any airplanes or helicopters that would be pulling them. They flew in formation, very slowly. I watched as they flew from directly south in line with Hurontario, to perhaps Long Branch. They were dark, perhaps black. There was a slight cutout on the right (West) edge, starting at mid-height, going down to the bottom-right corner of the rectangle. Both shapes had the same thin cutout. I can provide drawing if needed.
October 26, 2015 · 7:05 PM · FORMATION
Hawkesbury (Canada), ON · Canada
Occurred about 50 minutes after sunset. Looking towards the east two bright star looking objects were visible to the right of the moon. Objects were at least as bright as ISS. ISS only had one pass during the 26th that passed earlier in the evening from the west to south. Lights had a blueish tint to them. Initially thought it was Jupiter/Venus, since they are close together right now but realized they are only visible early morning here. Next thought was aircraft landing lights (LED type since they were blueish) but lights did not move and faded slowly not extinguished like aircraft landing lights and no strobes visible after lights disappeared. Lights were close together diagonal from each other (As seen in red circle of graphic) Lights were motionless but faded over about 30 seconds from bright to faint to gone but without any movement in relation to the moon which seems to discount any bright satellites. 2nd image shows no satellites listed in that area close to the moon. Called local ATC tower at CYMX had one aircraft in that direction at low altitude, but nothing that should be in that area of the sky.
October 17, 2015 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL
Peterborough (Canada), ON · Canada
They elevated in height very slowly. It was a slightly foggy and slightly cloudy night. The objects got very high until they each disappeared one after the other. Each light was about the size of a star and coloured the same as a star.
October 17, 2015 · 2:40 PM · SPHERE
Winnipeg (Canada), MB · Canada
It is october 17/2015 it is a cool but clear day here. Working in the back yard,cleaning up the garden,raking leaves. I am moving the compost bin when I look in the nnw sky and notice a shimmering object which I thought was a mylar balloon that was caught up in the wind, which was light from the south. I was looking at this object for at least 10 mins. It seemed to rotate,into red,silver and blue it was very shiny, because it was a clear blue sky day. It is hard to judge distance, could be at least 1000 feet away when I first noticed it,and it may have been there longer. As I watched this object shine, it was stationary at the time that I first observed it, as time passed it seemed to move away from me, still could see it rotate in the blue sky until I could barely make it out, when I lost site of it. It was just gone.
October 16, 2015 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
Ottawa (Canada), ON · Canada
I was driving home and had just pulled into our neighborhood. I was about 100 yards from my house when I saw the first craft. It was very unusual so I stop the car and rolled down the window to make sure I was seeing it clearly. When I realized that this was a very unusual object and possibly a UFO, I grabbed my cell phone and got out of the car. It flew in towards my position from the west. When it got at its closest distance to me, almost right over my head, approximately 80 degrees forward from me as I was facing southwest, it was somewhere around 1000-1500 feet in altitude. It was completely over cast with a low ceiling and it rained about and hour later. The two objects were below the cloud cover. It was at this point that I could see that this was a UFO. It mostly consisted of a well defined orange coloured corona with what looked like a moving electrical discharging orange light in the center. There were no flashing lights and no sound at all. The corona had a very defined edge and was not a glow or flaring. The corona it self was giving off light and gave the appearance that the craft was flying/floating in an orange coloured self illuminating bubble. As the craft flew off towards the east, the second one appeared following the same path and was identical to the first one. I fumbled with my cell phone, but by the time I got it to record, both craft were to far away to make out details. My video only shows a black screen with two points of light. The coronas where quite large in comparison to the center object and there seemed to be a darkened area or ring between the center and the corona. These craft were not moving very fast. Possibly 200-400 MPH. An incident occurred about 1-2 weeks prior. There were fighter jets flying over our neighborhood at low altitude and were going towards the direction that these two craft came from. They were extremely loud. I was under the impression that aircraft were not allowed to fly that close to populated areas. I don't know if these two incidents are related.