Peterborough (Canada), ON, Canada
Large bright orange light going in a stright line below airliners route as there where three planes way higher on thier flightr paths.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-21
- Where
- Peterborough (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2min
- Geo
- 44.300, -78.316 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-peterborough-canada-on-2004-553897
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
- Peterborough (Canada), Canada shows up 27 times across the archive.
- 362 reports came from Canada in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.