Strange flying objects caught on film; Unidentified shapes darting over Orillia leave man puzzled

Photo: Scott Fraser

These photos taken by Scott Fraser on Sunday night show one of four mysterious, elongated objects that appeared in the west, rose up in the sky, then veered to the south and disappeared.

Scott Fraser has seen a few strange things in the night sky.

But he never had a camera with him until Sunday night at sunset, when four white oblong shapes burst like rockets over the western horizon, then rose vertically some distance before whizzing south at high speed.

“I really honestly don’t know what they were,” said Fraser, who was standing on the Westmount hill near Tim Hortons photographing the sunset when one of his friends spotted the first of the vaporous white shapes, followed by a second.

A pilot and flight instructor at the Lake Simcoe Regional Airport who saw Fraser’s pictures thought they might me the contrails of military jets.

“Sometimes you see the vapour trail, but not the plane,” said Don Sturdy. “But that’s just a guess.”

Sturdy said he’s never seen clouds or vapour trails shaped exactly like the ones in Fraser’s photos. It’s interesting, he said. Fraser said he thinks the manouevres the flying objects made were too quick and sharp for conventional aircraft.

Planes can’t turn 90 degrees, he said. There are things in the universe beyond our knowledge, added Fraser, who once watched a glowing red object dart about over Lake Simcoe before accelerating out of sight. It keeps us wondering, he said.

Fraser has posted about eight photos on the social networking website Facebook. He said friends who have seen them are intrigued, but nobody has an answer. He plans to post a clip on the video-sharing website YouTube by running all the pictures in sequence to show how the objects crossed the sky.

(Source: http://www.orilliapacket.com)