As we get closer to Christmas on the 25th of December, reports and pictures of a strange light in the sky above Kelowna have surfaced.

Cole Gunn tells Castanet he saw the light come to what he described as a full stop and then speed off, just before 8 a.m. last Thursday December 13.

"I saw it sitting there, then all of a sudden it moved about 4,000 feet back and just stayed there. That's when I ran in and grabbed my camera." Gunn says he has no idea what the light could be, "it just took off, it was instantly gone, it was weird man."   

Gunn says he does not believe it was a meteor because he says it stopped.

It's a tad early but it might also have been the Christmas Star, which appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew, where "wise men from the East" (Magi) are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.

In the Christmas story, the star leads them to Jesus' home in the town, where they worship him and give him gifts.

Christians believe the star was a miraculous sign. Some theologians claimed that the star fulfilled a prophecy, known as the Star Prophecy. Astronomers have made several attempts to link the star to unusual celestial events, such as a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, a comet, or a supernova.

One possible explanation for these strange lights in the sky could be the Geminids meteor shower, one of the most spectacular of the year, which runs from Dec. 4 to 16 annually.

This year the Geminids meteor shower peaked before dawn on Thursday, December 13, when up to 120 meteors per hour are possible to see under dark sky conditions. Geminids meteors are often bright, intensely colored, and slower moving than average. The best time to watch for Geminids was sunset on Wednesday, Dec. 12 until dawn on Thursday morning, Dec. 13.