| ID | #1633359664 |
| Added | Mon, 04/10/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Hypothesis
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Initial data
On October 4, I was recording a documentary on television when I suddenly got a call from a friend who informed me that he was watching a UFO flying east at a very fast speed. The time was between 20:00 and 20:15.
I dropped what I was doing and ran outside to look. At first glance, I didn't see anything. But then out of the corner of my eye I noticed a light moving east. It was a single white light, and it didn't blink like on a regular airplane. No color, no sound. The object was flying to the east, and then the light went out.
When I asked my friend where he came from, he told me that he came from the south and turned smoothly to the east. When it first appeared, it was not very bright - the brightness of an ordinary star. At first, the object seemed to be higher than Jupiter. But then it dropped lower.
My friend said he aimed a big flashlight at him and turned it on. The object suddenly became as bright, if not brighter, as the magnitude of Jupiter, and began to approach. When my friend realized what was happening, he turned off the flashlight. When he did, the object became dimmer.
As he moved east, he turned on the flashlight again, and the light became brighter again and remained the same until it went out and disappeared from view.
Original news
Date: Saturday, October 4, 1997.
Location: Hanmer and Sudbury, Ontario.
On October 4, I was recording a documentary on TV when I suddenly received a call from a friend who was reporting to me that he was looking at a UFO traveling east at a very fast clip. The time was between 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. I dropped what I was doing and I ran outside to take a look. At first glance, I couldn't see anything. But then, I noticed from the corner of my eye, a light that was moving east. It was a single white light and it was not flashing like the ones you find on a typical aircraft. No colour and no sound. The object was streaking to the east and then, the light went out.
When I asked my friend about the direction it came from, he told me that it came in from the south and made a smooth turn towards the east. When it first came in, it wasn't very bright - about the brightness of an ordinary star. At first, the object seemed to be above Jupiter. But then, it dropped down below it. My friend said he aimed a large flashlight at it and switched it on. The object suddenly became as bright - if not brighter - as the magnitude of Jupiter and started moving closer. When my friend realized what was happening, he shut the flashlight off. As he did this, the object became dimmer. As it moved on toward the east, he switched the flashlight back on and the light became brighter once again and remained the same until it went dim and disappeared from view.
Hypotheses
Satellite
Ordinary satellites, which often look like single, not very bright luminous dots moving smoothly in the night sky, are quite often mistaken for UFOs. After the Starlink satellites (near-Earth satellite systems developed by SpaceX, in order to create a cheap and high-performance satellite Internet communication channel and technical transmitters for receiving and transmitting signals from earth and orbit) were launched, it became possible to observe groups of satellites (up to 60 pieces) flying one after another.
Investigation
Resume
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