NUFORC Sighting 91340

Occurred: 1988-08-14 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-07-31 08:39 Pacific
Duration: 5 hours
No of observers: 3

Location: Ottawa (west of) (Canada), ON, Canada

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Procession of very large, multi-coloured craft.

The reason I am finally taking the time to submit my story is because I heard your recent interview on the Jeff Rense programme where you shared some recent sightings that sound so incredibly similar to the remarkable one I had many years ago. It happened in 1989, about 80 km west of Ottawa ON. It was a calm, clear summer night and the stars were numerous. As I was enthralled with astronomy at the time, I was on the roof of our cottage with a friend and a set of binoculars, and I was teaching her the basic summer constellations. My parents were inside the cottage and they had two sets of friends visiting as well.

I noticed that across the eastern shoreline (about a mile across), there was a red light that was moving erratically in the sky, some distance away. It was perhaps the size and brightness of the star Deneb. I found it strange, so I focused the binoculars on them. Although it was tough to keep them still, I followed this red light zigzagging up and down, left and right. It was moving very fast and then coming to a complete stop. At times it would disappear below the treeline, and then pop back up into the sky. I didn’t say a word to my friend, as I wanted to make sure what I was seeing was really what I thought I was seeing. As I had been so focused on the one red light, I didn’t notice when a second and a third joined it, along the dark treeline horizon. Now there were three of them, all the same size and colour, zigzagging up and down and left and right and disappearing below the treeline and popping back. I went through the checklist of what they could be - weather balloon! s (just plain no), search lights (no clouds), helicopters (no sound), planes (can’t move this way)…and realized that what I had been watching for quite a few minutes were truly unidentifiable, to the best of my knowledge. I told my friend to take a look, and she too saw the three red lights.

I stood up, banged on the roof, and called down to my parents to come outside and see. As it was such a still night, I am sure the whole lake must have heard me. We came off the roof and met my parents and their friends on the porch. Ironically, the moment they came outside, the red lights dipped below the horizon and disappeared. They didn’t see a thing. What are the odds! My parents were extremely skeptical and were certain the red lights were weather balloons. At this point, 5 of the 6 adults went to bed. I estimate it was around 11pm. One of my parents friends, though, came to me quietly and asked me to describe to him, more privately, what we had seen. He was a retired RCAF pilot, with many hours of service under his belt, and was presently the principal of an elementary school in Ontario. We told him what we saw and he was extremely interested in our story. He asked us to show him the direction of where we saw the lights.

So, the three of us (my friend, my dad’s friend, and myself) went down to our dock and watched the eastern horizon, above the treeline, with eager attention. We had retrieved a second pair of binoculars. After about 15 minutes and no more red lights, we were thinking that our light show was over. As we had been staring so intently on the eastern shore of the lake, we hadn’t noticed an ENORMOUSLY lit craft to our right, above the southern side of the bay we are situated in. To say we were instantly startled and shocked is an understatement.

The southern shore from our dock is about 400 meters away. The treeline extends maybe 90-100 feet above the lake, with a small hill. I estimated that this craft was not much farther beyond the shoreline…perhaps another half kilometer, maximum. It was also approximately the width of my four fingers above the treeline horizon (I am actually sitting on our dock, where we saw these crafts, writing this). Now, the size of this craft was around the size of a tennis ball. It was enormous. Looking at it through the binoculars, you couldn’t see the whole craft…only parts of it. It was moving from west to east, and very slowly. And it wasn’t making a sound…it was completely silent. I remember hearing people across the lake laughing and partying while we were watching it, and I wondered if they were seeing it too. The next day I learned no one had.

The craft was shaped like a Big Mac (that was my comparison at the time). It was rounded, but not fully circular. There were no wings. There was nothing protruding out of any part of it. All around the outside of the craft were a few dozen of individual red lights, equally spaced in an orderly fashion. There were maybe 3 or 4 ‘rows’ of red lights. Inside the red lights were some individual green lights. They were the same size as the red, just fewer of them. And then, in the centre of the craft were some individual white lights. Again, the same size and brightness of the others…just white. The reds were the most predominant. The lights did not flash.

The three of us must have watched this craft cross the lake for about 15 minutes. All of a sudden, another craft, exactly like the one we were watching, appeared in the same place as the first. Same distance above the horizon, same speed, same lights, same silence…moving west to east. It followed the same path as the first. Over the next couple of hours, the three of us sat on our dock and witnessed 6 of these huge crafts pass by us, all following each other a similar distance, all looking exactly like each other…..all passing the eastern shore at the same place and continuing east. We realized that once they had travelled eastward some distance past the lake they looked like the red lights we had originally seen on the roof of our cottage! The green and white lights became invisible and the red lights appeared as one solitary light.

At the end of this procession of craft, we saw two smaller crafts. They were maybe the size of a dime, and like a cheeseburger in shape (again, my younger mind comparison). It was moving along the same path as the others, yet it was travelling faster, maybe 3-4 times the speed. It appeared a similar distance above the treeline. The entire craft pulsated a lime-green colour. In between flashes you could clearly make out the smooth disc shape of the object. There were no wings. There was no noise. Before they reached the eastern shoreline, they stopped in the sky, pulsated a few times, and then flew southward, quite quickly. We soon lost sight of them.

I remember thinking that those two were like the end of the parade. We decided that was it for us and went back into the cottage. It was 4am! We were shocked! What felt like maybe an hour or two had been 5 hours! Why hadn’t we thought of getting a camera? Why didn’t I wake my parents and prove to them that what we had seen earlier was real? Why didn’t we alert our cottage neighbours, who were friends of ours? We didn’t have the answers…and I still don’t.

The next day we went to the lake lodge and I asked the folks over there ‘Hey, did you see the UFOs last night? They were right above here!’ I was certain they HAD to have seen them. But they didn’t. We listened to the news on the radio the next day and there was no word of anything. I was shocked. How did no one else see these things? To this day, no one has claimed they saw what we did.

My parents still see their friend who was with me from time to time, and he still brings up his recollections of this night. He still says what we saw is the ‘most incredible things he has ever witnessed’. My other friend vowed to never talk about what we saw. I emailed her last year, asking her if she’s ever spoken to anyone, and she didn’t respond.

A bit about me: I have a degree in History and Education and I have been an elementary school teacher for 13 years. I am a married mother of two children. As astronomy has always been a passion of mine, I have spent many hours throughout my life observing the nighttime sky. I have never witnessed anything close to this, before or since. The events of this evening were burned into my minds eye, and I can recollect the images and thoughts and feelings so clearly still. I have rarely spoken about this to anyone…only a few trusted friends over the years.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD

Posted 2012-08-05