Date: October 16, 2010
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Location of Sighting: Komoka Trails Ontario.
Number of witnesses: 3+1 human+ 2 dogs.
Number of Objects: 7 plus 1.
Shape of Objects: Long cylinder with appendage.
Full Description of Event/Sighting: Hi Brian, in the past week we have been watching the night skies in the area south and west from our porch with great interest now. I say now because there has been a lull in the activity we noted in the same are through out the whole summer. This period of 'non activity' lasted approximately 10 days back dated from today's date. We have been watching faithfully now every night since July when we first noticed the weird darting, flashing, erratic movement of these 'lights' that seem to be awfully low in the sky. We have noted the regular flight patterns of familiar air traffic in the area during the same time frame when we have seen
these unusual things. By we, I mean four members of our family.
During the last 10 days we have seen nothing unusual in the skies until two nights ago. Sometimes it has been clear as a bell with ideal viewing opportunity and we've witnessed nothing unusual, other times it has been cloudy or thickly overcast. If you said we were relieved, you'd be right, we had even begun to toy with the idea that we had imagined everything we had experienced and attributed it somehow to an over active 'collective' imagination.
As you can imagine when you live in a heavily treed area, and you see low anomalies in the night sky on a regular basis, you begin to wonder what you might see when all the trees have fallen and your viewing area has increased 10 fold. Well, you see more of a panoramic view for one thing, and for another you are provided with an uninterrupted sequence of events. By that I mean, not only have we been able to note these unusual lights and erratic movement, but we've been able to track where exactly they move to, and how many there are are.
Last night we counted 4 simultaneous bright flashes and at least 3 other responding dimmer flashes. There definitely seems to be a purpose that none of us have been able to figure out. There is very obvious signaling as indicated when while watching one light we notice two other ones flash orange then red quite bright then dim. We have been able to see these lights dim completely while a commercial aircraft flies overhead then come back on immediately after it passes. All this we can see through the now leafless trees quite low over the Thames River in a South to West direction.
I must mention that these 'lights' are fairly close, within a mile radius from our vantage point, we have heard nothing except for the commercial aircrafts. We have also noticed that the light show and activity seems to be greatest just before the sound of the distant train whistle and immediately after. Every time we say in disbelief to one another, 'See, there's no sound,' we strain our ears then we hear the train whistle.
Last night we watched these 'lights' for over an hour travel back and forth above and along the length of the river and return to the same spot above the hydro lines/gravel pits at least 5 or 6 times. The height we'd estimate as being between 500 to 800 feet above the river. We noticed that while the lights flashed or flickered they seemed to sweep or cause arcs of light over the area. We thought maybe it only seemed that way because they were so low and there was something to bounce off the light as it were.
This was very faint, this arcing as if some one had quickly flicked the light switch on and then quickly off again. A bit like dull lightning or something. Late last night we decided to drive over to the top of the trails right beneath the hydro lines, this is pretty much where we thought the lights were coming and going as explained. Well, we had a perfect vantage point, we saw everything unobstructed from our view on a huge rock over looking the river below. We decided then that what we were seeing was not normal, nor was it our imagination.
The activity was definitely below us and returning to the hydro lines not beside us, but to the ones on the other side of the river. This morning I walked 2 dogs on the trails beneath a clear blue sky and looked up in an open area just for the fun of it and saw a long silvery white shape with a projectile about 2 to 3 thousand feet. I'm not sure here, I'm guessing because an aircraft could be seen higher in the sky traveling west with a long trail or plume and I couldn't even hear it. I grabbed my digital camera and took a few shots, not sure if I was getting anything because of the glare on the camera screen, I'd look up to see where this silver thing was and it was still there flying very slowly east.
It looked like a shiny piece of long metal moving along the sky, no sound, no plume nothing. I watched it the whole time from beneath a tree I was that afraid to come into the open, and when a small aircraft flew noisily overhead it just simply disappeared. I kept checking the sky and then looked at my camera to see whether I captured anything and there was nothing. This was no doubt due to my own ineptness, I think I will have to revert to an SLR for my walks.
I was quite shaken by this, both of the dogs were very agitated and kept running a few feet away then returning to my side and I hooked them back up and decided to return the way I had come rather than finish my walk and we hurried on our way. No sooner did I come to the river with the cliff to my right (southeast) and I looked up and saw it above the cliff flying north at a lower altitude silently. I confess, I stayed where I was and just waited until I thought it was gone, the whole time the dogs kept pulling on their leashes and whining. About 10 minutes later I left the trails and drove home.
I don't know what to think, I am still quite upset by this, I have read with interest what a person from the UK wrote to you in a sighting report and I'm inclined to think the same thing, namely that what ever is up there is definitely looking for something, very deliberately and very methodically. As always, thank you Brian for this excellent opportunity to share our experience, as we try to make sense and work through this.
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