Late on the night of May 17, 2013, I found myself gazing up at the moon from Burlington, Ontario, when an intensely bright satellite caught my eye. It slowly glided towards the moon and vanished just as it passed behind a thin veil of cloud, mere inches from the lunar surface — close enough to measure at arm’s length. This disappearance seemed perfectly natural at first, the sort of event one might expect and easily explain away.
But then, only minutes later, something far more unsettling unfolded. About four to five minutes after the satellite’s disappearance, I witnessed what I can only describe as a miniature explosion of diffused light. Following this brief flare, a couple of seconds later, a sharper, pinpoint burst of light appeared slightly farther away but at precisely the same location where the satellite had faded. The scene was brief yet intense, flickering in the night sky in a way that defied logic and my understanding.
I consider myself a focused, rational person, yet this strange display refused to fit neatly into any logical explanation. There was no conventional source that I could identify — no aircraft, no fireworks, no atmospheric anomaly that could justify the eerie dual light phenomena above Burlington that night. The incident left me with more questions than answers, an indelible mark of uncertainty against the familiar backdrop of the night sky.
Sharing this here is my way of reaching out to anyone who might be captivated by the mysteries of the skies, anyone who might care about unexplained aerial phenomena. Because sometimes, the night holds secrets that refuse to be explained away, lingering in the darkness long after the lights have vanished.