One late summer evening in 2003, my sister and I took a peaceful walk in Enderby, British Columbia. The sky was dipping into twilight, shades of blue still lingering as night approached. Just as we turned toward home, I noticed a bright white light hovering motionless in the sky. At first, I assumed it was a stationary aircraft beacon guiding planes in the distance. But then, in an instant that sent a chill through me, the light rapidly changed — expanding from a modest glow to a large radiant orb — only to shrink swiftly down to a tiny pinprick before darting across the heavens at an incredible speed.
The entire spectacle lasted barely two minutes, but those sixty seconds were filled with an unsettling mystery that defies conventional explanation. Unlike any plane, satellite, or meteor I’ve ever seen, the light remained a pure, piercing white throughout, completely still at first, then suddenly alive with motion that was impossible to predict or track easily.
My sister and I barely had time to process what unfolded before us. Fear tinged our fascination, yet after rushing home we didn’t dwell on it—until days later, when murmurs of similar sightings began surfacing in our community. More and more people spoke of strange lights and unexplainable aerial phenomena illuminating the night sky.
This encounter remains etched in my memory, a brief flash of the unknown that challenges our understanding of the world above. Whether a trick of light or something more enigmatic, that fleeting white light over Enderby carries the unmistakable mark of something extraordinary — a true enigma captured in just two minutes under the vast Canadian sky.