SIGHTING: CULTUS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

Witness Testimony

"I went camping to Cultus Lake with my girlfriend, mom, and sister. On the first night, my mom and sister went to bed around 10pm. My girlfriend and I decided to stay up and stargaze for a while. We saw some satellites, a shooting star or two. Usual stuff. Roughly an hour later at 11pm, we saw what looked like a satellite (small 'dot' of light moving in straight line through sky) but it looked like it was speeding up. It got faster and faster until it just vanished. About a second later, another showed up in the same spot the previous one did, and did the exact same thing: speed up for a small distance of the sky and then vanish. I counted about 12 of these lights, but my girlfriend spotted them first and said she counted about 15. We were both buzzing about the odd 15 lights, and were discussing what they could be. That's when this giant orange streak of light blazed across a small portion of the sky. It was ridiculously fast. Almost cartoonish. The only reason we saw it at all was because it followed the exact path the 15 dots did so we were looking directly at it when it happened. Because I was looking at it, I managed to catch the shape of it, and it was a crescent moon shape, with an outwards point in the centre of the inwards curve (kind of making a banana-like trident shape). I also noticed a small indent in the center of it. I could notice that the craft was two toned, dark yellow and a darker brown, as if sunlight was reflecting off of differently angled body lines, and it had like this orange glow/aura surrounding it. It was moving so blisteringly fast that it left like a motion-blur effect, with a repeating image trailing behind it. It was only visible for a total of about 1-2 seconds, getting smaller as if it was moving away from us, and just blipped out of existence. If you were looking straight up, it moved from a south to north direction. My girlfriend and I immediately shouted "WHOA!" at the same time when we saw it. Her view was partially covered by a tree branch, so she just caught a glimpse of this orange ball of light flashing across the sky, but my view was completely unobscured which allowed me to see the actual shape of it. It was very surreal, like "Did that actually just happen?""