Our witness grew up in Trenton, Ontario, an air force town, made a couple of hundred freefall skydives as a young adult, and is used to judging aircraft at height. In late July 2019, just after 11 p.m., on the edge of a town north of Toronto where the houses give way to farmland, it was time to put the garbage out.
An orange light sat just above the treeline. It looked like a streetlight at first, then like a Chinese lantern, but it kept growing as it came closer, low and slow, under 1,000 feet. At its nearest it was less than two kilometres away. Everything went silent; even the crickets stopped.
The object was about the size of a house. Its surface looked like lava, rippling like boiling water out from a darker spot like a bruise, and covered in fast, sharp-edged pulses of energy, about four a second, that travelled over it in unison. It moved north to south past the house, then began to rise, climbing to somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, and disappeared with a low popping sound and three or four echoes.
The whole thing lasted about three minutes. Phone video caught only a point of light. A MUFON investigator who followed up said two other witnesses had filmed a similar object in the area, on two nights in a row. The witness doesn't know what it was, but is sure it wasn't a plane, helicopter, balloon, drone, lantern or ball lightning, and has been looking up ever since.
