Lights in the Sky

Photo: Contributed - Kari and Phil Taneda

After reading the report on the strange light in the sky last Saturday night we decided to respond. We too saw the light as we drove up Glencoe road. It was so bright that we stopped at the end of our driveway for about 15 minutes to watch it. It was completely stationary.  Only movement was shape changing from perfectly round to flat to oblong. It also flashed creating a halo. We thought it might have been a huge helicopter hovering with a massive spot light for the fire, but really it was too bright and big. Then we thought maybe a planet, but again it changed shapes. The pictures don't do it justice but if you zoom in you can see the shapes.

Kari and Phil Taneda

My name is Jan Rauter. I live in Rutland on the Bench.  I was going to bed last night around 10 o'clock and I happened to look out my bedroom window and saw this really bright light with a very small light off the top and slightly to the right.  At first I thought it was a plane but it stayed in the exact same place. I called my husband to come look and we stood on our back deck and watched it for long time. It did not move at all. I then went to bed, checking about every 5 - 10 minutes and it was still there. About 5 minutes to 11:00pm I looked again and it was completely gone. So I thought to my self that there was no way it could have been a star either. I really had no idea what it was but I fully expected there to be some kind of write up in the paper as I thought that if I could see it so clearly then I was sure other people could see it and it would be reported.

Jan Rauter

I read the article on the strange light in the sky on Saturday and had to tell you that I saw a weird light on Saturday too! I am so glad I wasn't the only one. I live in Rutland and what I saw was a bright round light appeared,from my perspective it seemed, to be under the moon. From where i was, it seemed to just drop from the sky and disappear! There was no noise and i listened and watched for sometime  thinking it might have been a  huge meteor or something and didn't hear anything. I have never seen anything like it! I didn't have a camera and it moved so fast I didn't think it would have helped anyway!

Jessica Malakoff 

Re: the unidentified object in the sky.

Couple of weeks ago, in the early morning sunlight, I spotted something that looked like a helicopter, hovering very high in the sky above Glenrosa. It hardly moved, and there was no sound, just the occasional strobe-like flash of light from it. My camera wasn’t powerful enough to identify it, so I got out the binoculars. What was it? It was a bunch of flat plastic party balloons that must have escaped from someone. As they moved around, the sun occasionally reflected from one of them, hence the ’strobe’ effect. They caught some wind and slowly moved east, so I phoned Air Traffic Control at Kelowna, thinking that they might present a hazard to aircraft.

Angus McNee

About two weeks ago my friends and I saw something strange and very round fall from the sky like a meteor would. It was perfectly round but it was bright white and orangeish pink in colour. We looked everywhere for reports the next few days but there was nothing. It looked just like the first picture but white and it was falling so it had a small tail. But it seemed to just stay still for a bit before it fell.

Ashley Renner

This is great that someone else saw the same light (lights) as we (nine people) did Saturday night. We first spotted a bright light coming towards us then it made a right turn and quickly disappeared. Within seconds a second red ball came from the same direction and was huge. I happened to have a set of binoculars right beside me and I grabbed them and focused on the orange/red ball. It was very large with no form similar to the first picture taken by the other persons sighting. It became the hot topic as there were nine wittiness all in our 60's. This sighting was looking East from Welker Rd. over Vernon Mountain. I haven't reported it as we don't know who to report it to.

Wayne Little