NUFORC Sighting 95607

Occurred: 2012-12-22 16:30 Local
Reported: 2012-12-30 13:36 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Windsor (Canada), ON, Canada

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Left a trail

Unknown object creating a large zigzag contrail pattern in the sky seen by my friend and I In two different locations.

At Approx. 4:30PM on December 22nd 2012 just before sunset my friend and I spotted something very unusual forming in the sky.

I spotted the object in the South South-Western sky over Roseland Golf Course in South Windsor, Ontario, Canada. My friend was further northeast of my location between Tecumseh Rd. E and Seminole St. and saw the same contrail left behind. When I observed it moving I could not see the actual object as it was behind the tree in our front yard and it was fairly far off in the distance. All I saw was the contrail it left immediately in its wake which started at a lower elevation and climbed to a much higher elevation. As it climbed, it swayed from side to side slowing down every time the object curved as if it was some sort of rocket or plane that was completely out of control. Then just as it started, the contrail stopped for no reason and the object making it was long gone only a few seconds later when I moved to a better vantage point away from the tree. The entire event lasted about 15 seconds but the contrail lasted for a few minutes after the object creating it disappeared! and that is when I took a photo.

The picture shows the path of the contrail and was taken less than a minute after the event occurred. As I said above, it appeared that the object came out of nowhere and started making a contrail in a zigzag fashion moving up in elevation then it suddenly stopped making the contrail and from my original vantage point I could not see an object moving away from the contrail after it stopped. I did not see the contrail when it first formed so perhaps it came from the cloud deck at the bottom, but I definitely saw the contrail all of the sudden stop way up in the air for no reason.

The contrail left behind stood out over most of the city and was very easy to spot so there must be more witnesses Canadian and American. If most of the city saw this then it may have been as far away as the Detroit River at Grosse Ile or further into the United States which is where there is an airport so perhaps it came from there.

NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Posted 2013-02-04