Toronto (Canada), ON, Canada
reddish orange lights popping in and out of sky randomly all in different spots
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-25
- Where
- Toronto (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-15 min
- Geo
- 43.706, -79.399 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-toronto-canada-on-1997-a960c8
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
September 1997 was a busy month for Toronto (Canada), Canada: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 250 reports logged in Toronto (Canada), Canada.
- This case is one of 63 Canada reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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