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Appearance / Description of Object(s)
Round and bright white, like a headlight. It did appear to be flickering red, as well.
Description of Area / Surroundings
No military bases. But we are on the US/Canada border and it's possible that the object was in US air space.
Full Description & Details
At my parent's cabin, several of us decided to stay up to watch the stars. It was my mother and father, my sister, my fiancee and myself. We were not drinking and there was absolutely no cloud cover. In fact, we had been out on the beach from approximately 10pm-11:30pm when we decided it was getting chilly and moved up the lot to a semi-treed area where the campfire was. At about 12:30 my mother went to bed and my fiancee said, "Hey, look at how bright that star is. What is that? Was that there before?" Everyone was looking and wondering if we had in fact seen that bright light earlier. It was about the size of a pea--much brighter than Mars or Jupiter. In fact, it was smaller than, but as bright as the moon. It seemed to be white but flickering red--prompting my sister and I to wonder if it was in fact Mars. It appeared to be very high in the sky...Just then a white light seemed to scan over the ground beneath it, but again, we were wondering if our eyes were just playing tricks on us. My fiancee said he thought it was moving, and I told him that it was just the night toying with his senses. We all stood there staring at it on the beach for about 5 minutes. Someone suggested we use a tiny star that was beside the object as a marker to see if it was in fact moving. We noticed that it did move slightly left and right, but suddenly it started to move upward. It was soon parallel with the star and then seconds later it was inches above it (imagine your arm stretched out and raising 6-8 inches in a seconds). As soon as it was there, it was gone. It seemed to just "turn off" like a light. No noise was heard. I personally found the sighting disturbing, as an avid star gazer, I have never seen anything remotely like it. It was only then that my sister claimed to have seen 3 similar objects with 10 friends one night several years ago. She said they were travelling in a triangle but were fairly far apart and very high. They cleared the entire sky over the lake (which by the way, is massive) in seconds. I was never a believer in anything that couldn't be scientifically proven. I'm not sure now.
Can sighting
be explained as any conventional man-made or natural
object?
It initially did look like a bright star/planet but it's movement suggested otherwise. I've never seen a manmade object move like that. Not even a helicopter.
Reported Sighting? Yes
Reported To: To friends and family
Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Age: 29
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