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Orbs and lights near Boya Lake

August 29, 2025, 9:10 PM

My partner and I had an incredibly uneasy experience at around 9:10pm on August 29th.

We were sitting by our campfire near boya lake chatting away when this what looks liked a ball zoomed through our campsite faster and different than anything we’ve seen before. We had a lit view circumference of about 100 feet surrounding us. It was level, staying at about 6 feet off the ground and moved with such speed it made my partner gasp. I did not stop, flap, or make any animal like movements/ sounds. It was through and out our LOS without stopping in less than a second, but both my partner and I saw it. She cried, and it really freaked me out.

We tried to think calmly and clearly, so my partner wrote down what we saw immediately. Here is the note: Unidentified flying object seen by both M & I at Boya Lake - was something unexplainable, dark object flew through our campsite, travelling levelly from one end to another. The object was symmetrical and may have had some sort of wings or antennae but did not swoop or flap, and shot through our lines of sight without stopping or wavering, despite a number of large trees and shrubs in the area. It travelled fast, and by the time I turned my head towards the forest where it was travelling the object was gone. M heard object travelling fast, turned head and saw ball like object maybe with wings travelling level and fast, by the time he turned head, the object had travelled out of eye shot.

I want to also say my partner is a wildlife biologist in the north of Canada and I am an educated professional studying my PhD. I have been in some scary situations with animals in the north, but I never have thought I’d have an experience like this, proper fear.

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