Ontario, Canada (10-10-2007)
From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project
Witness Testimonial
Well, it was about 4am when I recieved a message from a friend who said he could see something strange going on over lake Ontario, and told me to look. I live at the beach, so I walked outside, an sure enough, it was the strangest thing I've seen in my life. I was completely in bewildered and in awe.
What I first saw was a VERY bright yellow-amber-coloured sphere floating high above the lake, but under some rather low clouds, maybe 5-10 degrees above the horizon. It really lit up the clouds above it, almost like there was a light source rotating very fast, or some sorta radioactive fire burning/flickering, like a really big and bright candle in a hurricane that just wouldn't blow out. It seemed to light up the clouds more than anything, but it gave a fair reflection off of the lake too. Considering it wasn't moving, I wasn't sure what it was, and I still don't know.
I watched this phenomena for over an hour, and what it / they were doing was rather unusual and hard to describe. It basically hovered for about 10 minutes, slowly drifting downwards or further away. The closer to the horizon it got, the dimmer / further away. As it approached approx. 2-3 degrees above the horizon, suddenly ANOTHER one lit up to the upper-right, about maybe 5 degrees away horizontally, and vertically. As soon as this one light up, it, it seemed to eject something to it upper-right, barely visibly except for a very dim light the 'projectile' shed. Within about 30 seconds after, the first one sorta fizzled a bit and went out. The second one slowly drifted downwards or further away for about 10 minutes, growing SLIGHTLY dimmer (or maybe just further away), and sure enough, when it reached about 2-3 degrees above the horizon about 10 minutes later, another one (or probably the one that fizzled out) suddenly lit up, again approx 5 degrees up and to the right, and ejected something to its upper right...
I watched them appear and dissappear like this for quite some time, they must have done this at least 20 times. It looked almost like they were playing leap frog. However, there were certainly some rather peculiar instances. I'm not sure where to start.
Besides from this pattern of appearing/reappearing, sometimes the one that last fizzled out would light up just a LITTLE BIT for about 10-15 seconds. It looked like what an ember would be to a fire, barely burning, but looking hot. During one of these moments, I definately saw the fizzled one hovering, then suddenly gain a couple of degrees in altitude. When it was lit up (it only shed enougth light to be seen) it looked similiar to whatever was being ejected / what was happening when the other would initially light up, just it didn't move as far or fast as whatever was being 'ejected' (?) and didn't have a particular velocity. This happened several times.
Another instance - the weirdest one by far - is when I ran inside after half an hour to get my roommate and my camera. When I ran back outside, I could see 2 of these 'orbs' lit up and just kinda hovering, but one was burning WAAAY brighter than I saw all night long. It actually lit up the beach a little bit. I was running to the beach to get a good pic, and just as I opened my lens, the really bright one moved very fast from 10 degrees above the horizon to about 1-0 degrees - from the sky to the ground in less than a second! It was SOO bright (comparatively) then burned out almost as soon as it hit ground-level. The less bright one (still pretty bright though) just hovered, and they eventually continued their little pattern...
There were a couple of times they were both completely faded out, for at least five minutes. I waited and watched, and sure enough, another one would appear. At points, I could see both burning bright and clear for about a minute or so at a time. There were also two instances where one would appear to the upper left of the other, approx. the same distance away as I'd estimate according to their little pattern.
The whole time, I noticed about 60-70 degrees above in the sky, there was a very bright 'star' emitting white light, which was also flickering/wavering. It was the brightest 'star' in the sky, besides from the amber 'orbs'. It would sometimes go right out and then reappear a couple of seconds later. I could still see the stars next to it when it went out, so it wasn't being covered by clouds. In fact it shone soo bright, I could see it right through the thin ceiling-clouds we had. For some reason, I'm left with the impression it was some sort of 'mother ship' or something, I'm not sure. I am, however, pretty sure it was related to whatever was happening.
The last few minutes of this sighting were rather uneventful, the last 'orb' continued the same pattern, but I didn't notice anything shoot off of it when it appeared. It eventually just fizzled out entirely. I waited approx. 10 minutes to see if another would appear, but to no avail.
This was certainly one of the most profound moments of my life. I knew there was something else out there, I just never believed people would ever see such a thing. Now I believe, and I actually have a couple of pictures and movie clips to prove what I saw.
Yeah, I'm a little nuts, but I can prove what I saw, and I also have two eye-witnesses who saw the same thing I did.
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