It was a clear, refreshing night in Hamilton, Ontario, as I took out the trash around 10:30 p.m. The sky was a perfect canvas of stars and moonlight, ideal for sky watching. What I saw that evening, however, was anything but ordinary. Three separate times, I spotted dim orange lights arranged in unusual shapes moving silently above my house.
My first sighting involved six glowing orange lights, arranged in two fat-side-first triangles, passing overhead near Mount Hope Airport. Unlike any aircraft I’d encountered, these lights were all the same dim orange hue and were larger than typical plane lights. What struck me most was the utter silence — no sound at all, even though the lights were close enough for me to expect a roar or drone. I could even see the stars twinkling through the gaps between the lights, revealing no visible craft or silhouette. Then, intriguingly, the two triangles rearranged themselves into a scattered pattern, suggesting these were not parts of one plane but six separate, coordinated units.
Despite feeling slightly unsettled, I couldn’t tear my eyes away. I made several phone calls to share what I was witnessing, though I had to keep details guarded with some due to the unusual nature of the sighting. Shortly after, I caught a glimpse of a single orange light darting diagonally across the street, moving too quickly for a plane but too steadily to be a shooting star. Finally, the last sighting appeared — a horizontal line of three dim orange lights moving silently in a path similar to the first sighting but slightly further west.
These mysterious lights, their silent flight and unexplainable formations, remain vivid in my mind. That night, the skies over Hamilton became a stage for something enigmatic and beyond ordinary understanding. For anyone fascinated by the unknown realms of the night sky, these moments are a haunting reminder that the universe still holds secrets we have yet to fully grasp.