UFO. Canada

Brighton, Ontario, June 29, 1993, p.

Several local residents have witnessed unidentified flying objects over the past month.

Similar sightings of strange orange objects hovering over Lake Ontario over the past four weeks have been confirmed by individual witnesses.

All the witnesses at first thought that it was a plane or a signal rocket as a result of the CFB Trenton search and rescue exercises.

But the brightness, duration and circumstances of the observations aroused their terrible curiosity, which requires another explanation of what they saw.

In each case, individual witnesses saw a bright orange object-usually described as an electric light bulb in the sky-hovering near or above the lake, and other bright objects were moving at high speed towards or with it.

Witnesses reported no sounds of planes or helicopters, and the duration of observation was from 15 to 25 minutes.

Bill Topham, a World War II Air Force veteran and former engineer, and his wife Eileen were driving along the highway. 2 shortly after dusk in Coburg, on June 15, when they noticed a bright orange light moving eastward parallel to them. They followed the light coming back on after driving through Colborne.

"Either he was following us, or we were following him," Bill said.

Then they turned onto Union Road.

When the light was shining right in front of him, Bill and Eileen stopped the car and did not hear any sound, no planes, no helicopter. Being so close, they noticed a satellite object, a smaller orange light next to the hovering main object. They turned east onto Lakeshore Road. This time they were very close and could see two smaller lights adjacent to the main object. They followed the lights - for a total of about 15 minutes-to Preskil before the lights went out.

"We've seen it, and I'd like to know what it is." he said.

CFB Trenton confirmed that search and rescue teams were absent on June 15 and 23.

On June 23, at about 23:30, Mary Shannon, unaware of Topham's appearance, was looking east out of the window on Main Street. In the sky, about 15 degrees above the horizon and over land, she saw a bright orange object hovering. Again, the object was bright orange in color. For about 15-20 minutes, Shannon watched as about 10 smaller bright objects continuously moved from the western sky to the main orange object. The smaller lights disappeared into the main light when they collided.

After the lights stopped burning, the main object disappeared into nothingness.

Captain Pete Peterson of CFB Trenton said the trail of steam seen by Topham would match a search and rescue rocket, some of which have a power of up to 1 million candles. Torches are dropped from planes and helicopters mainly over the lake and last about six minutes. According to him, attached to a large parachute, they can float and are exposed to the wind. According to him, although mostly white, fog, pollution and perspective can give the glare an orange color. According to him, the lake was one of the busiest, where search and rescue operations were carried out by the CFB and the US Coast Guard.

At night, Tophams saw the object, the wind was calm, and the sky was clear. A call he made to the CFB's operations manager confirmed that two planes had taken off that night, but there were no helicopters or flares.

Another similar observation made by three people in early May had the characteristics of the same orange lights.

Janice Morgan was at home on the highway. 2 west of Colborne, when something caught her attention from a window overlooking the lake.

She looked at the TV, then back at him, but he was gone. A minute later, a bright orange object appeared again. Walter Lee, who was also at home, grabbed a pair of binoculars.

"There's definitely something there," he said.

Janice, Walter and his wife watched the object hover, while constantly glowing, for 15-20 minutes. From the eastern sky, a smaller object was moving at an incredible speed and stopped next to the main orange light. They hovered together for about 3 minutes before the satellite object flew away in the same direction from where it came.

The main light "disappeared, as if someone had turned off a switch," Janice said.

Ed Barker, a UFO researcher at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, said there was nothing unusual about these sightings.

"Over the past two months, I have been inundated with observations," he said from his office.