Canada sightings / Ontario / Peterborough
UFO sightings in Peterborough, Ontario
40 UFO reports from Peterborough since 1990. The busiest year was 2012, with 9. The most common shape after plain lights: sphere. 5 were never explained.
- 40 reports
- 5 unexplained
- 1990 first report
- 2024 latest
How the reports were rated
- 12% unexplained
- 50% possibly explained
- 35% not enough information
- 2% explained
Reports by year
Unexplained cases worth reading
- Jul 7, 2004 03:30PeterboroughUnexplained
Close encounter · blue, triangle · 1 witness · 90 min
Huge craft hovering over nuclear plant, zoomed away, missing time?
- Aug 6, 2015 21:30PeterboroughUnexplained
Object at night · white, irregular · 1 witness · 30 min
Small planes with blinking lights circling a dot in sky that darted back and forth,
- Mar 14, 2005 21:50PeterboroughUnexplained
Object at night · triangle · 1 sec
Slow-moving object passed overhead making SE turn, lights on corners
- Mar 30, 2005 22:45PeterboroughUnexplained
Light at night · white, point of light · 2 witnesses
Starlike light moved across sky, stopped, made sharp turn, went S-N
- Dec 29, 2012PeterboroughUnexplained
Object at night · red, irregular · 2 witnesses
Object with skirt on bottom, fire on top, zig-zagging in sky
Every report from Peterborough
- Nov 8, 2024Peterborough
Photo or video · black, cigar · 1 witness
- Oct 21, 2023 20:31PeterboroughNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 1 witness · 30 sec
Light with shadow around it, stationary then flew straight and went through the
- Jan 16, 2020 03:45PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · white, point of light · 1 witness
10-12 lights seen following one another
- Aug 6, 2015 21:30PeterboroughUnexplained
Object at night · white, irregular · 1 witness · 30 min
Small planes with blinking lights circling a dot in sky that darted back and forth,
- Sep 13, 2014 22:20PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, point of light · 1 witness
Orange lights in sky
- Aug 31, 2014 23:13PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, sphere · 2 witnesses
Large orange ball of light across sky
- Aug 24, 2013PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, point of light · 2 witnesses
Orange light in sky with purple plasma firing out of it (video)
- Aug 2, 2013PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, sphere · 8 witnesses
2 large orange spheres move across sky
- Jul 2, 2013PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, sphere · 2 witnesses
2 glowing orange balls flying across sky
- July 2013PeterboroughPossibly explained
orange, point of light · 1 witness · 10 sec
2 orange lights flying silently across sky
- Dec 29, 2012PeterboroughUnexplained
Object at night · red, irregular · 2 witnesses
Object with skirt on bottom, fire on top, zig-zagging in sky
- Dec 24, 2012 19:15PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · red, point of light · 2 witnesses · 4 min
Glowing object like "ember" erratically moving to SE
- Oct 5, 2012PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, fireball · 2 witnesses
Fireball streamed across sky
- Sep 2, 2012PeterboroughNot enough information
Object at night · sphere · 6 witnesses · 60 sec
Glowing ball of light hovered, took off, returned
- Aug 12, 2012PeterboroughNot enough information
Object at night · orange, sphere · 2 witnesses
Glowing ball "like moon rising" accelerated, hovered
- Jul 10, 2012 00:45PeterboroughNot enough information
Object at night · orange, irregular · 2 witnesses
Several objects seen
- Jun 30, 2012PeterboroughNot enough information
Object at night · orange, sphere · 2 witnesses
Glowing ball faded away
- Jun 12, 2012PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, triangle · 6 witnesses · 30 sec
Bright object crossing sky, silent
- Mar 20, 2012 20:30PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · orange, triangle · 1 witness
Object flew overhead, strange noise, flashing lights
- April 2011 22:00PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · red, oval · 2 witnesses
Black oval with flames passed overhead
- Feb 23, 2011 19:30PeterboroughPossibly explained
Object at night · red, disc · 1 witness · 30 sec
Video: half-sphere moved near treeline, back & forth
- Feb 22, 2011 21:15PeterboroughNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 2 witnesses · 15 min
2 lights over treeline in distance, flared & vanished
- Sep 25, 2009 21:04PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, fireball · 2 witnesses · 6 sec
Orange fireball in sky with a trail and sparks coming off it
- Mar 21, 2008 20:00PeterboroughNot enough information
Light at night · multicoloured, point of light · 1 witness · 20 min
Bright object low in E, changed colours, shape
- Sep 30, 2007 03:00PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · multicoloured, point of light · 3 witnesses · 60 min
Stationary light, or moving?
- Sep 19, 2007 03:00PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · multicoloured, point of light · 2 witnesses · 15 min
Hovering light, moved to W
- Sep 18, 2007 21:00PeterboroughNot enough information
Object at night · white, cigar · 2 witnesses
Stationary object in sky
- Sep 1, 2007 22:30PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · point of light · 1 sec
2 starlike objects Flying overhead
- August 2007 22:30PeterboroughNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 1 sec
2 lights flying E and one W
- August 2007 22:30PeterboroughNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 1 sec
2 lights flying E, one W, met, flew away
- Jun 11, 2007PeterboroughNot enough information
Object by day · black, irregular · 2 witnesses
Ribbon-shaped object flew in an odd manner SW
- Dec 19, 2005 20:00PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · multicoloured, point of light · 2 witnesses · 120 min
Stationary light in SE sky, 60-degree elevation
- Oct 30, 2005 22:02PeterboroughExplained
Light at night · fireball · 1 sec
Fragmenting, fast fireball, short train
- Mar 30, 2005 22:45PeterboroughUnexplained
Light at night · white, point of light · 2 witnesses
Starlike light moved across sky, stopped, made sharp turn, went S-N
- Mar 14, 2005 21:50PeterboroughUnexplained
Object at night · triangle · 1 sec
Slow-moving object passed overhead making SE turn, lights on corners
- Aug 26, 2004PeterboroughNot enough information
Light at night · point of light · 1 sec
3 lights in triangle
- Jul 17, 2004PeterboroughNot enough information
Object at night · point of light · 1 sec
3 lights on triangular object moved E
- Jul 7, 2004 03:30PeterboroughUnexplained
Close encounter · blue, triangle · 1 witness · 90 min
Huge craft hovering over nuclear plant, zoomed away, missing time?
- Jul 5, 2004 04:00PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · orange, point of light · 2 witnesses
Fast-moving light seen
- Jul 2, 1990 00:20PeterboroughPossibly explained
Light at night · red, fireball · 1 witness
Bright reddish-orange fireball; letter to NRC
No report matches.
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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.