Date: July 16, 2017 (Approximate)
Time: Approx:
4:15 a.m.
I'm not a pilot, but I had a
sighting approximately two months ago. I told my son about it the next morning,
but he's such a skeptic about all this UFO stuff, so I knew he'd have a logical
explanation for it in his mind. He thought it was a falling star.
This is what I seen: I got up out of
bed around 4:15 a.m. to use the washroom, then I decided to go outside and put
my dog out. While he was doing his "business", I was looking up at
the sky, just looking at the stars and I then noticed a bright white light come
in view over my building from the west to east travelling at an incredible
speed. It was going so fast that I couldn't see it anymore.
I'd say it was about 20 seconds and
then gone. Now, there are many nights where I'll just sit on my lounging chair
and just stare up at the stars trying to see how many satellites I can see, so
when this bright light came "flying by" I thought to myself there is
no way that's a satellite; it's going way to fast compared to the many others
I've seen, plus it was so bright.
It was like looking head on at a
headlight. It was the most distinguishable thing in the sky and it seemed like
it would have been the same distance as a satellite would be, but so much
brighter and larger. Usually when I see a satellite I have to really adjust my
eyes to follow it because they blend in so well with the stars around it and
I've lost sight of one many times, but there was no way I lost sight of this.
I followed it for about 20 seconds
and then it was gone in the distance, probably over Quebec by that time. Now, I'm
not saying it was a UFO, but it was the strangest thing I've ever seen. Could
it have been a planet? I don't know, but do planets move like that? Could it
have been a falling star? I guess it could have, but I've seen those as well
and it didn't look or move like a star. I checked online with the ISS to see if
they happen to mention anything about a bright light that they may have seen
and tracked, but nope, nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas what it
could have been? I haven't seen anything like it since and I've been checking
every night, but to no avail.
Brian
Vike, Director KBCC UFO Research. Email: b_vike@telus.net
