| ID | #1633545827 |
| Added | Wed, 06/10/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | |
| Phenomena | |
| Status | Fact
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Initial data
On Thursday, May 17, 2001, the author of the original material received the following email:
"I want to inform you that last night on May 16, 2001, I saw something strange. I live in Ottawa, Ontario. And I saw this over the Ottawa River near the Deschenes Rapids at an altitude of 300 to 450 feet.
First, I saw a light that moved back and forth from right to left for about 15 minutes. I thought it was weird and asked my roommate to come over and take a look, and we thought it might be a helicopter.
Then it was joined by a second fire with the same appearance, so we said it must be helicopters looking for something, because we can see their lights getting brighter when they searched for about 20 minutes. And when they started moving towards Ottawa Airport, we couldn't see them anymore, but I couldn't stop looking in that direction.
And after about 5 minutes, I saw a very dim light flying in a strange pattern. I can't use the word "pattern" because it was flying everywhere; it was hard to keep my eyes on it, but it was very interesting to me, and I had to know where it was going, so I watched it fly towards the airport.
I could see it until he flew over the airport and the plane took off. Then it was still until the plane flew for about 1 minute in flight, after which I could no longer see it.
PS. I wish I had a video camera."
Original news
Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2001.
Location: Ottawa, Ontario.
On Thursday, May 17, 2001, I received the following e-mail:
'I would like to report that I seen something strange last night, being the 16th may 2001. I live in Ottawa, Ont. and this I seen over the Ottawa River close to Deschain rapids at an elevation of about 300 feet to 450 feet. First, I saw one light moving back and forth from right to left for about a 15-min span. I thought it was strange and asked my roommate to come up and look and we thought that this could be a helicopter. Then it was joined by a second light with the same appearance so we said that they must be helicopters looking for something because we can see their lights getting brighter as they searched for about 20 min. And when they started moving towards the Ottawa airport, we could no longer see them, but I could not stop looking in that direction. And about 5 min later, I saw a very dim light flying in a strange pattern. I can't use the word pattern because it flew all over the place; it was hard to keep my sight on it but this was very interesting to me and I had to know where it was going, so I watched it fly toward the airport. I could see it until it was over the airport and a plane took off into the air. Then it was still until the plane was about 1 min into flight, then I could no longer see it.
PS. I wish I had a video camera.
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