UFO. Canada

Date : Thursday, August 22, 2019

Location : Near Blind River, Ontario

On September 8, the author of the original material received the following email from a Canadian resident who was vacationing with his wife in Iron Bridge, Ontario:

"September 8, 2019

Dear Mr. Deschamps,


To provide context for the next report, I would like to share my past with you. 

I am 64 years old, I am a registered clinical psychologist working in the field of mental health. I have a Bachelor of Science degree (1977) with a specialization in experimental psychology and a minor in astronomy, as well as a master's degree (1980) in perceptual and cognitive psychology. During my graduate studies, I focused on the psychological and physiological foundations of perceptual and cognitive distortions. 

After graduate school, I continued my studies in behavioral psychology, and this is the main method in my clinical work. Thus, I have a formal scientific background and I am well versed in the problems associated with eyewitness testimony, as well as the truthfulness and bias inherent in such observations. I consider myself an empiricist who is very skeptical of extraordinary claims, and I share the opinion that such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I considered the field of "ufology" as a study of "human phenomena" that may or may not reflect something beyond human psychological/perceptual factors, although there is still evidence that these events are human psychological experiences. However, the rational explanation of the observation that I will describe here has eluded me over the past two weeks, and because of this, I decided to submit this report "for the record", the details of which are based on the records of that time. I took it at the time of the incident. 

I am submitting this report in the hope that others may have observed the same event and can offer some ideas.


I would add that since early childhood I have been interested in astronomy and cosmology, my eyes have often been directed to the sky, and I remain up to date with the latest developments in this field. I have spent many hours observing the heavens with the naked eye and through telescopes, and am familiar with observations of stars, planets, comets and meteors. 

I was lucky enough to observe the "big fireball" in August 1972, when I lived in Southern Alberta. I have also observed many man-made objects crossing the sky during my lifetime, ranging from conventional planes and helicopters, ending with B52 bombers and their fighters flying over southern Alberta at an extremely high altitude from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, to numerous observations. satellites pass overhead in the first hour after sunset, including the International Space Station. In short, I believe that I am well versed in the normal behavior of celestial and artificial objects that can be observed in the sky.

My wife also has a master's degree and works in the health administration.


Incident

Location: Last summer, my wife and I spent six (6) weeks at our family cottage on the north shore of Lake Huron, near the Blind River, Ontario. Over the past 25 years we have spent most of the summer in our cottage. The cottage is located on the shoreline of Lake Huron, 30 feet from the water, facing east and south, with a beautiful view of the lake, which, of course, looks like the ocean. There are only about 20 cottages along the coast, and most of them are seasonal, and only some of them are year-round. All cottage settlements are surrounded by an undeveloped provincial park without roads. This is a very quiet area and isolated enough that it can be qualified as an area of dark sky.


Date and time : The following observation was carried out on Thursday, August 22, 2019, at 21:40 Eastern summer time.


Weather conditions: The sun had set some time earlier and the sky was actually black, especially when looking east and south over Lake Huron. The sky was completely cloudless and many stars were visible, but it was still too early for the moon to rise. There was not the slightest breath of wind, and the lake was completely motionless and mirrored. None of the nearby cottages had lights on, and it seemed that most of them were empty at the time; therefore, it was incredibly quiet and peaceful. Since the nearest city is 25 km away (in a straight line), there was no light pollution.


Chain of events: My wife and I spent the whole day closing the cottage and packing the truck, preparing to leave the next morning. We were sitting in the cottage, having a late dinner and watching TV when I noticed through the main windows (facing east) a large and very bright oval orange light in the sky over Lake Huron, which immediately struck me as very strange. , moving relatively slowly but steadily from north to south (from left to right). I pointed this out to my wife, and we immediately went to the front deck to get a better look. The light was the size of a large bean that was kept at hand. s of length and was not sharply outlined, but rather had a somewhat indistinct appearance. 

I can't stress enough how orange the light was, how bright and big it was. For comparison, subjectively it was as bright as a crescent moon. The light appeared at an angle of about 35 degrees above the horizon and moved in a straight line from north to south for about 60 seconds. The intensity of the light was constant, without pulsation, flashing or any other behavior. There were no lights associated with the plane, nor any details of the solid object, but rather, it looked like a bright glowing light with fuzzy edges, steadily moving across a completely clear night sky. There was absolutely no sound with the light. 

Since there was no reference point in the dark sky above the lake, it was not possible to judge the distance or height of the light source, but subjectively, given its size, it seemed that it was several kilometers above Lake Huron. Since the object never stopped, there was no way to triangulate it to calculate the distance. 

After 60 seconds of linear movement from north to south, the Light suddenly began to decrease in perceived brightness and seemed to slow down in its movement, but then it was clearly moving away at an angle, heading southeast further over the lake. The light became smaller in size and its brightness continued to decrease as it moved at an angle away from us, and it seemed to be moving much further away from our location at a much faster speed. Within 15 seconds, it turned into a point of orange light the size of a star, then disappeared from view, still remaining relatively high above the horizon. 

At the moment, I shared with my wife that this could not be a weather phenomenon, given the ideal observation conditions and completely windless weather, as described earlier. I also shared with her that I could not explain this light in terms of astronomical objects due to its size, brightness and movement, as well as the aircraft, given the apparent lack of navigation or strobe lights to prevent collisions and the complete absence of sound. 

I have observed many commercial aircraft flying over Lake Huron day and night, and in such conditions, their engines can be heard for a long time and from long distances, as well as for propeller planes and helicopters, because the sound is so well carried across the lake in calm times. My wife suggested that it could be a drone, but in the absence of people around and an object heading towards a large lake at a considerable distance, this seems unlikely. When we discussed it for about a minute, my wife asked, "What about this orange star?" There was a light the size of a star, slightly orange in color, located higher in the sky at a distance of one hand from the hand. length s, where the original light disappeared from. 

I assumed it was just a reddish star, and my wife said: "But it just appeared," to which I replied that our eyes began to adapt more to the dark, and we began to see more stars. 

She insisted otherwise, and to my great surprise, the "Orange Star" suddenly began to gain brightness for a period of 5 to 10 seconds to a level much brighter than any full Venus. The increase in brightness gave the impression that the object was approaching our location, but at a great height and distance, but then, as quickly as it became brighter, it decreased in brightness, and then completely disappeared from view. The object or objects no longer appeared. The whole episode described here, from the first appearance of light inside the cottage to the disappearance of the second light from the field of view, lasted about three (3) minutes. 

Given the apparent height of the object in question and the duration of its presentation, one should wonder whether any radar observations have been carried out: many commercial flights are made over Lake Huron, and this airspace will be well covered by the control room.


Additional information: Since we were packing the truck all day, I didn't have access to my binoculars, which I'm very sorry about, considering how big and bright the object initially seemed to the naked eye. In addition, we didn't have a suitable camera at our disposal, and our cell phones were charging. 

My wife tried to take a video, but by the time she took out her mobile phone during the first part of the observation, the brightness of the light decreased and the phone camera could not catch it. I had never seen such aerial phenomena before in my life, and it made a strong impression, because I cannot come to any rational explanation of this light or its behavior. 

For reference: neither my wife nor I were under the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs.

Sincerely, LM"