NUFORC Sighting 25594

Occurred: 2002-10-14 22:30 Local
Reported: 2002-10-14 21:40 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Oshawa (Canada), ON, Canada

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

UP to 7 silent orange lights seen hovering for quite a while.

My wife and I were watching tv around 10:30ish. We live on the sixth floor of an apparment building. To the east, there appeared to be 2 or 3 orange coloured lights coming towards the apt. (this happens frequently as we are apparently in the flight path of the Oshawa airport). The only thing was, the lights did not get any closer. They seemed to possibly be about 1 mile away from us I suppose (it was hard to tell this). They hovered for a while. Eventually, as time went by, at least 7 lights were seen by both of us. I used binoculars to try and see more, but all I could make out was the orange lights and nothing else, except for what seemed like smoke/steam/exhaust? coming from them at times. This stream of exhaust seemed to go up into the sky quite a ways. We heard no sound and the night air was calm. If there were 7 helicopters hovering in the night sky, I'm sure we would have heard something. Then they were gone. Just wanted to add to the other reports I have read about on this web site.

((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))

Posted 2002-10-15