Canada sightings / British Columbia / Penticton

UFO sightings in Penticton, British Columbia

30 UFO reports from Penticton since 1992. The busiest year was 2014, with 3. The most common shape after plain lights: fireball. 2 were never explained.

30 reports
2 unexplained
1992 first report
2021 latest

How the reports were rated

7% unexplained
50% possibly explained
33% not enough information
10% explained

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Unexplained cases worth reading

Jul 27, 2003 23:00PentictonUnexplained
Object at night · irregular · 2 witnesses · 30 min
Beam of light (time in error?), narrow in SE, wide in NW

Every report from Penticton

Sep 7, 2021 19:02PentictonPossibly explained
Object at night · fireball · 1 witness · 2 sec
CADORS 2021P1482: slow moving bright object split into 3 & disappeared
May 15, 2021 22:41PentictonExplained
Object at night · grey, cigar · 1 witness · 7 min
Very slow pass across the sky pf long cylindrical object with row of lights
Jul 17, 2020 19:30PentictonNot enough information
Object by day · white, oval · 1 witness
Video: "Tic Tac" flying between clouds
Feb 8, 2016PentictonNot enough information
Object at night · blue, irregular · 1 witness
Blue/green fireball that looked "like and alien ship". 2 reports
Jul 26, 2015 22:30PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · point of light · 1 sec
2 bright white lights moving in tandem across sky then vanished
Jan 1, 2015PentictonPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, sphere · 1 witness
Ball of orange light moving across sky new years eve
Sep 22, 2014 20:39PentictonPossibly explained
Object at night · red, fireball · 1 witness
Red fireball seen in sky
Sep 15, 2014 20:00PentictonPossibly explained
Object at night · green, point of light · 2 witnesses · 2 sec
Bright green ps in sky
May 31, 2014 21:40PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · red, irregular · 2 witnesses
Stream of red and blue lights across sky
Nov 11, 2013 17:00PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, point of light · 1 witness · 5 min
Bright stationary object seemed buffeted by wind, then went S
Aug 27, 2013 17:30PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, point of light · 1 witness
5 or 6 orange lights moving slowly
Aug 27, 2013PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, point of light · 1 witness
5-6 orange lights moving across sky
Aug 16, 2012 22:30PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · white, point of light · 2 witnesses
Orb going W-E, "cloaked" then went back other way
Aug 7, 2012 22:45PentictonNot enough information
Object at night · green, fireball · 2 witnesses · 5 sec
Orb high, distant, size of Moon(?), arrow head shaped obj?
Dec 29, 2011 21:30PentictonNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 1 witness · 20 min
Several lights moving quickly in sky
Sep 2, 2010 20:30PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · point of light · 2 sec
Bright light low in sky heading NE
May 18, 2010 19:00PentictonNot enough information
Object by day · irregular · 1 sec
Still from video shows odd light
Jul 11, 2008 20:50PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · white, point of light · 3 witnesses · 20 min
3 starlike objects Going S-N
Jul 2, 2006Penticton
Light at night · 4 witnesses · 5 sec
Jul 1, 2006 23:30Penticton
Light at night · multicoloured · 2 witnesses · 10 min
Aug 19, 2005 21:05PentictonNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 5 sec
Bright starlike object
Feb 22, 2005 19:12PentictonExplained
Light at night · fireball · 1 sec
Slow, fragmenting fireball
Feb 22, 2005 19:11PentictonExplained
Light at night · fireball · 1 sec
Bolide in SW
Aug 30, 2003 23:30PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · blue, fireball · 2 witnesses
Ball of light went N-S, leaving glowing persisitent trail
Aug 18, 2003 11:15PentictonPossibly explained
Object by day · silver, cigar · 2 witnesses · 4 sec
Long point of light appeared, vanished
Jul 27, 2003 23:00PentictonUnexplained
Object at night · irregular · 2 witnesses · 30 min
Beam of light (time in error?), narrow in SE, wide in NW
Aug 10, 2002PentictonNot enough information
Light at night · multicoloured, point of light · 1 witness
Small lights appeared and reappeared, zig-zagging
Jun 2, 1994 22:54Penticton
Light at night · white, fireball · 2 witnesses · 3 sec
May 14, 1993 22:00PentictonUnexplained
Object at night · cigar · 3 witnesses · 10 sec
Mar 11, 1992 22:05PentictonPossibly explained
Light at night · point of light · 1 witness · 1 sec
Meteorite

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About this data

These reports come from the Canadian UFO Survey, compiled each year since 1989 by Ufology Research of Winnipeg. Each year the survey gathers sightings sent to police, airports, the military, researchers and UFO groups across the country, and rates each one. We left out every report the survey received from MUFON, NUFORC or Enigma Labs, so the totals here are lower than in the survey itself.

The ratings are the survey's: explained means a likely cause was found (a plane, a planet, a satellite re-entry), possibly explained means there's a good guess, and unexplained means the investigators couldn't find one. Notes are short summaries, lightly tidied. Most places are the nearest town, not the exact spot.