Whitby (Canada), ON, Canada
Strange bright light hanging low in the night sky (not a planet) moved very slow and pulsing orange. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-07-02
- Where
- Whitby (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 43.883, -78.933 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-whitby-canada-on-2010-7c0aa4
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Whitby (Canada), Canada shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 195 reports came from Canada in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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