Two Unknown Bright Lights Seen From Pipers Lagoon Park In Nanaimo British Columbia

Date:  September 16, 2012
Time:  Evening.

Holy crap, I was at Pipers Lagoon park walking with my mother and her dog, and saw two very bright lights above what I presume is either the Mill, Gabriola Island, or Newcastle Island (I honestly don't know) but it was near the coastal edge of that landmass.

Anyway, there was one flying slightly above the other, glowing a bright light the same colour as a streetlamp, and it was faint at first.

The one on the top proceeded to glow extremely bright, vanished, and reappeared half-way across the Georgia Straight in little under a second of it disappearing. (I couldn't tell if it flew very fast or teleported there, it's a far-out assumption but even so).

The other slowly preceded to glow, as if it was flying our direction. It became very bright, almost difficult to look at, and then slowly faded away and vanished.

We were at first assuming they were helicopters, but that theory just didn't make any sense, and for search and rescue, I'm sure we would have seen boats going about as well. It was pretty strange!

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Bright UFO Zig Zagging Across The Sky Over The South End Of Nanaimo British Columbia

Date:  August 19, 2012
Time:  9:45 p.m.

I live in the south end of Nanaimo, close to Haliburton. I got a call from my boyfriend at 9:45 a.m. to say he had just seen a UFO by Country Club. It was as bright as a streetlight.

So I went outside of my house and looked up and saw one light that was much farther away than what he saw zig zagging back and forth towards the ocean.

It faded and disappeared. A few seconds later I saw another light that looked exactly the same as the first zig zag towards Port Place Mall and disappeared.

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White Light In The Sky Over Departure Bay Nanaimo Vancouver Island British Columbia

 

Date:  July 12, 2012

Time:  Around midnight

 

Yes I did see one very strange white light moving over Departure Bay at around midnight last night while I was having a cigarette. Once again the light was white and it moved much faster than an airplane would move and the light was constant, not flashing.

 

I watched it move for about 5 seconds and then it just kind of faded away and was gone. I kept looking up for a few minutes to see if it didn't just go through a cloud or something, but it never reappeared.

 

Last time I saw something like that was about a year ago, it was zooming by real fast the first time I saw it and thought it was a shooting star or something, but I am sure It was the same kind of light now.

 

Weird stuff going on up there for sure.

 

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Unknown Light Flying Over Nanaimo Vancouver Island British Columbia

 

Date:  June 2012

Time:  Evening.

 

I saw something very similar to this. I can't be sure for the exact date, but it was about a month ago.

 

I was sitting down by the waterfront in Nanaimo, and my friend and I saw this object which looked as if it was hovering over top of the Mill (Harmac), we watched it for some time, and then it moved from the Mill across the waterfront, heading North in direction. (my friend tried to get a video of it, but it was night time, and you can barely see it.)

 

We decided that it was a helicopter, but there was no sound coming from the flying object.

 

I decided to let it go, but I knew in the back of my mind that there was something strange about it.

 

Sorry it took me so long for my curiosity to peak on the subject, honestly I wasn't expecting anything to come up when I searched on Google.

 

I would like to know if anyone else has contacted you about the sighting in Nanaimo. Thanks.

 

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Multi Colored Lights Seen Over Mount Benson Nanaimo Vancouver Island British Columbia

 

Date:  April 4, 2012 to April 7, 2012

Time:  Between 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: From 1 to 5.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: For the past few days, once night hits there has been strange lights over Mount Benson glowing with colors from red, green, white, orange and blue.

 

Some have been by themselves, well others have been in formation. Last night there was a bright white light moving in between them just to vanish into thin air.

 

Now I can't say I know there UFOs, but those aren't navigation lights and is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in the sky.

 

 I see you live in Nanaimo, tonight look over Mount Benson as I would love to here other people's opinion.

 

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Bright Multi Coloured Star Like Object Seen Over Nanaimo Vancouver Island British Columbia

 

Date:  April 5, 2012

Time:  9:25 p.m.

 

Hi, my name is (name removed) and I live in Nanaimo. I have seen the bright multi-coloured star many times here. People in Nanaimo don't seem to be too alarmed by it, even though it seems to be moving separately from the normal movement of the stars across the sky.

 

I have witnessed this with several people, all who dismiss it as just another star. We need some close ups of this thing, anyone with a telescope?

 

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Red Lights Spotted Over Nanaimo On Vancouver Island British Columbia

 

Date:  March 19, 2012 

Time:  Around 10:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

 

Hey, I was home on the night of March 19th, 2012 when I got a phone call from my friend telling me he was watching some sort of UFO in the sky.

 

He told me to look out my window. I live in one of the high rises in downtown Nanaimo. I looked out towards the Hospital, but the lights had already gone.

 

I then went out on my deck and looked back as 2 red lights re-appeared in the sky over towards the hospital, they moved slowly upwards in an irregular pattern.

 

This all happened at around 10:00-10:30 March 19th, 2012 It was wild.

 

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Red Lights Spotted In The Sky Over Nanaimo Vancouver Island British Columbia

 

Date:  March 19, 2012

Time:  Evening.

 

My husband and I drove off the Tsawwassen Ferry late Monday evening, March 19th, 2012. We both noticed a red light moving slowly in the sky. It moved erratically, up, down, sideways, nothing like a conventional aircraft.  

 

It was very dark and raining, and the reddish light seemed out of place. We watched it for a couple of minutes and noticed another one higher in the sky in the direction we were driving (towards Parksville).  

 

The first light disappeared. The second red light was too high for my husband to see while he was driving, but I continued watching it move in the same erratic pattern, then it also disappeared.

 

I wish I could have photographed it, but with the rain on the windshield I didn't think it would be anything but a blur.  

 

Any other photos you've received of this sighting? This isn't the first time we've witnessed strange things in the sky. I'm curious how many others have seen these as well.

 

Feel free to contact me.  Take care.

 

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Red Lights Spotted And Filmed Over Nanaimo British Columbia (Picture)

 

Date:  March 19, 2012

Time:  Evening.

 

I saw what you were describing and got a weak picture of it it was cloudy and raining here when they were spotted a number of people in my building saw them as well I can be reached at (contact information removed).

 

Additional Information:

 

The one light is just of center of the picture, and the other one is more above it to the left. If you zoom in on the picture it becomes more pronounced.

 

 

Photo Left: Click on the image for larger view.

 

My girlfriend called to me to see the lights and at first 2 bright orange-red lights were over the hospital area (I was facing the hospital from the other side of Duffrin Cr school) 

 

They moved to slowly and in irregular patterns which rule out aircrafts for they danced around one another, but they did move to opposite sides.

 

One hovered and went up and down then disappeared. They looked to be approximately 200 feet in the air near the end of the display. A third one appeared, bigger than the others.

 

It came from the direction of Hollyst. I believe best description I can think of for them, is that they reminded of those large red candles that glow orange in the middle when lit but the they just didn't fly off they disappeared.

 

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Three Balls Of Fire/Light In The Sky Over Nanaimo British Columbia

 

Date:  March 19, 2012
Time:  Approx: 10:30 p.m.

 

Good Morning, I am emailing you to let you know that I saw three balls of fire or light in the sky last night around 10:30 p.m.

 

I live in Nanaimo, B.C. and from my window, they came from the southeast side and went northwest. The first and second were much brighter than the third.

 

I did video tape the third one, but it didn’t turn out. They were not like meteors because they did not go in a straight line. Near the end of the sighting, they appeared to change direction.

 

If there is anything else you would like to know, Feel free to email me. Cheers.

 

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Red/Orange Lights Seen In The Sky Over Nanaimo British Columbia

 

Date:  March 18, 2012

Time:  Approx: 10:10 p.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 3

Number of Objects: 3

Shape of Objects: ✶

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Just after 10:00 p.m., (CBC News had just started) I am on Holly Ave in Nanaimo. Slowly, over the rooftops/tree line looking west, two orange lights begin to rise in the sky.

 

They are not balls of light, but seemed more like a Christmas tree star ✶. These two reddish/orange lights casually rose in parallel, with one slightly ahead of the other. They rose steadily to a 10:30 position.

 

The night sky was clear with just a few bands of light cloud, but as the first of these objects appeared to encounter the cloud, it disappeared from view.

 

About a minute later, the second one faded from view, but not inside the sparse clouds.
The way the objects moved, reminded me of firework flares.

About a minute (maybe two) after the first two lights disappeared, a third rose up from the same westerly position. It reached about that same elevation and then faded.

 

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Planet Like UFO With Rings Around It Seen Over Nanaimo British Columbia

 

Date:  May 21, 2009
Time:  Approx: 9:30 p.m.

 

Wow, my girlfriend and I experienced nearly the same thing last night. We saw a light traveling west to east at around 9:30 at night with no noise and at a odd slow speed. It looked as though it stopped and start to come down.

 

Maybe a 100 yards east of where we were standing I ran in the house to get a camera. When I came out the light was shining at us and getting larger. It looked like an 'O' with the center black. As I was attempting to take the picture, it sped off going east and disappeared in a few seconds.

 

The picture I took shows what looks like a tiny planet with 1 or more rings around it. Weird.

 

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Group Of Orange Red Lights Over Nanaimo British Columbia

 

Date:  November 28, 2011

Time:  7:30 p.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 1

Number of Objects: 3

Shape of Objects: Spherical.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: My sighting began just after picking up a new printer at the local Staples in Nanaimo. I had just begun to pull out of the parking lot when I noticed due south, just behind and above the Home Depot, a group of red/orange lights.

 

It was odd enough for me to pull over and attempt to catch the sighting on my phone.

I stepped out of the van and as I filmed I witnessed 3, bright orange red spheres at roughly a forearms distance apart, slowly ascend from roughly the horizon and into the cloud bank.

 

They moved at the same rate of speed at a 80 degree angle upwards. A strong easterly wind was blowing but the lights moved very slowly westerly.

The color was the most striking part. It was an even light (no flickering) and it had a very warm reddish/orange glow which frankly looked out of place in the night sky. At one time it appeared that each individual light may have been comprised of 3 interconnected spheres.

I would very much like to know if anything was happening in that area (anything involving Chinese lanterns?). It was definitely not standard air traffic and no landing or identifier lights were visible.

 

The objects themselves seemed substantial enough that they may have posed a flight risk to local air traffic in that area.

Someone else must have seen this. It was happening during a busy seasonal shopping time.

Thanks for listening!

 

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Lights Over The Pacific Ocean At Nanaimo British Columbia

Date: July 19, 2011
Time: Evening

Hi there, I had just popped out for a smoke and I first noticed a very strange looking illuminated cloud. As I watched, it broke into two, before disappearing a few minutes later. After they had disappeared, I noticed a much more vivid light seen closer to the ground, it had a sort of halo effect around it.

It would become dimmer and disappear, then another would appear shortly. They appear to be forming off the coast and at first, I wondered if they were flares, but they appeared to move very little and remained more or less in place for several minutes before disappearing.

It came back again and the light has turned orange, and can clearly be seen moving erratically around the same area. I am going to take my car closer to the harbour to see what I can see.

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Witness Observes Disc UFO While Feeding The Deer At Nanaimo British Columbia Canada

Date: February 5, 2011

Time: 3:40 a.m.

Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Rice shaped? Oval? Disc?

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I live in an area where the lights aren't nearly as bright. There's a small forest and river near by, and I go outside once in a while if I'm awake and see the local deer out there. I was feeding one some slices of apple, and looked up to see how cloudy it was to anticipate the weather for later that day and I saw it. A disc in the sky. I thought I was seeing things, so I rubbed my eyes and looked again. Twice.

I felt so shocked, like I was stunned and couldn't move due to awe. If I held my hand out, it would be the size of my thumb nail (across). I could almost bet it was reflective, because staring at it, you could tell it wasn't glowing, it was like it was silver, and reflective. Dim, but definitely there. I've worked on military bases here before, and I know helicopters don't move like that.

It was like a swaying motion, but in that distance, it was moving back and forth maybe a mile or two, just back and forth. I watched for about 5-10 minutes before it hovered, then shot off really fast to the south.

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Bright Orange Object Seen From Nanaimo To Chemainus British Columbia

Date: January 22, 2011

Time: Approx: 7:00 p.m.

While driving home from Nanaimo around 7:00pm I saw it as well, and by the time I got home to Chemainus it disappeared. Weird stuff.

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Bright Object Travels Across The Night Sky Over Nanaimo British Columbia (ISS Sighting)

Date: December 28, 2010

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Hi Brian, I'm writing in response to your article at: http://canadaufo.blogspot.com/2010/12/ufo-bursts-into-light-and-still-hangs.html

Today, around 6:30pm, my wife and I saw something somehow similar to your observation.

As we were getting ready to go, I took the time to look at the sky and enjoy the stars before going in the car, when I spotted what seemed to be a satellite. Having watched hundreds of satellite before, I quickly concluded that this was different.

The speed was about 3 to 5 times faster and the brightness what many times stronger than the reflection I've seen from satellites. Actually, the object was brighter than any stars, like a large white star.

The trajectory of the object initially appeared straight, but after around a minute there was a very slight curve in it.

Everything lasted less than 3 minutes. The object's brightness finally faded away within less than ten seconds and enabled me to get a better idea of it’s size and shape.

When the object faded away, it looked more like an actual satellite before disappearing than a star, which gave the impression that the object was much smaller. Unfortunately, the object completely disappeared and could not be found after close observation.

We were unable to get any precise shape nor altitude. When I was younger, I had the chance to see many types of aircrafts, since my father was a pilot and an air traffic controller. But this is truly strange. If this was a satellite, the speed was absolutely tremendous and the brightness so great that it would imply some sort of large reflective area. Because of this and the shift in trajectory, I conclude it is not a satellite.

Moreover, the brightness cannot be easily explained if this was an aircraft, since it would have required a great deal of energy for no apparent reason but to be overly visible. In addition, no sounds were heard on this quiet evening.

There was no trace behind, resulting from the object. I'm tempted to believe this was a long range missile that "stopped" in flight (west to east), but how could it not leave a trace?

Hope this helps. Best regards.

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UFO Bursts Into Light And Still Hangs Over Nanaimo British Columbia

Date: December 16 - 17th, 2010

Time: 9:30 p.m. –1:00 a.m.

Location of Sighting: Nanaimo British Columbia.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Disc.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Last night I was on the deck of my apartment talking on the phone to a friend it was about 9:30pm when I noticed what looked to be a low flying satellite coming in my direction flying SE direction towards Vancouver from the west coast of the Island.

I said to my friend on the phone, there's a UFO and he started joking around, I then got off the phone and the object was still moving in my direction, it then stopped and was just floating in one place. I called for my wife who came out and was watching as well.

We both watched it and then it started to move north toward Lantzville, it went up and into an arch pattern and then gave off a huge burst of light and was travelling fast and jittery and then stopped further down my line of sight just over the building across the street, but further toward the back end of Mount Benson area.

We watched for a few minutes and could tell it was moving constantly in small increments, but stayed in one place or area. We went inside and I got my spotting scope.

I set up my spotting scope on the dining room table by the window as I could see it from there just over the top of a building across the street, but off in the distance.

I am not sure what it was, but it didn't just stay in one spot, even for a few seconds and only travelled out of the scope and back in to where I had it focused.

It moved up down back and forth, had 4 lights across it and was shaped like a thin disk from what I could tell. It was very bright and the colour of a sparkler or a camera flash, but constant even in the spotting scope. It wasn't very large and you could never really focus on it to get a clear distinct look at it as it was too bright and not very big.

The object was still doing it’s thing off in the distance when I finally went to bed at 1:00am.

Not sure what it was, but it wasn't a plane, helicopter, weather balloon, Mars, or the Moon.

Hope to see something like that again.

Total time I and my wife watched it was about 4 hours. So I am not sure what to make of that and I am sure others seen it as well. I will be watching the news and combing the internet for a few days to see if anyone else seen anything.

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Stationary Square/Cube Shaped UFO Over Witnesses Home In Nanaimo British Columbia

Date: August 31, 2010
Time: 7:45 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Nanaimo.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Square/cubed.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: Hi there, I have never filed such a report as this, but I feel compelled. I walk my border collie most nights around 7:30 p.m. On August 31, 2010, we took a familiar route on a nearby street. The evening was cool and grey with low cloud cover, and the daylight had turned into a half light.

The street lights were on 20 minutes later. Something caught my eye to my left and about 200 feet above some houses was a stationary object, probably dark grey or brown, and about five to ten feet wide in size. There were no lights on it. It appeared square, possibly cube like, but as it rotated it disappeared for a second or two, as though it may have been two dimensional.

I discarded the possibility it was a kite, because there was no wind at all. We walked about 40 feet and looked up again and saw it. We walked another 40 feet, with some tall pines blocking our view, and when I looked up again past the pines, it was gone, no trace at all anywhere. It did not reappear. Just thought I would share this. Thanks.

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Lights Chasing One Another Over Cassidy South Of Nanaimo Vancouver Island British Columbia

Date: July 22, 2010
Time: 11:35 p.m. - 12:03 a.m.

Location of Sighting: Cassidy turnoff across from airport, but they were about 5, 10 miles away in the night sky.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 3
Shape of Objects: Differ.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I had just been picked up from my friends get together at his house, and I ended up leaving at 11:30pm. It takes about 5 minuets to get to the highway turnoff from his place, and my mom and I were about 30 seconds from pulling up to the light to turn onto the highway and heading home, but we saw something in the distance of the night sky, so we pulled over, shut the car off, turned the lights of, and sat in silence, to hear if they made a sound.

There were 3 very, very bright lights, two of them looked like they were chasing each other in circles (very small circles) and they did about 8 loops, then immediately stopped. As we watched them, my mom and I noticed how slow they were moving.

The speed that they were going was nothing that can be matched to a known existing aircraft, the 3rd object was moving as slow as the other 2, but only after about 3 minuets the object stopped and for the rest of the time we were there and it was like it was watching us, very strange.

The two constantly moving craft soundlessly moved along the tree tops from where I could see they were. They went dim, then brightened back up again, and after about half an hour those 2 disappeared. The third craft stayed in the same place as it had been, prior to the disappearance of the other 2.

They all had odd patterns of flashing lights, nothing I've ever seen on a known aircraft, and there were very large amounts of light coming out of the forest where I was sure they disappeared into. When they would disappear, we saw what seemed to be sparks and white fire coming off them as they descended in the trees.

By the way, when we first arrived at the sighting spot, they were very high up in the sky, I'm not sure how high, but they were very high up and also before they moved along the trees, Two of them moved straight down and we figured out that they must have been over some farms, or the forest seeing this is all there is. Ladysmith is 10 km south, and Nanaimo is I don't know how far away Cassidy is.

This is what my mother and I saw last night and we sure haven't seen anything like this before.

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