We were at the beach of Lake Ontario (Pickering – specifically Rotary Sunrise Lake Park) I was on a float, away from the beach about 80m, and the sky was perfectly clear. Just lay back on my float and looked up, and saw this rhombus shaped thing fly straight across. It was rust colored and had two geometric faces, one seemed more lit or brighter rust than the other (maybe sunlit from the west). It was not crystal clear – had a bit of ‘disturbance’, almost like a motion blur to it, but it was just moving steadily and silently across the sky. There were birds flying around but this was unlikely a bird. I caught a glimpse of it and first and thought it was a bird, but by the time I realized it wasn’t one (no flapping, straight and steady line of flight, out of sight in less than 5 seconds) it passed beyond my vision, and tipping my head further to strain and see it would have had me topple off my float. The water was pretty damn cold.
I have been processing this in my mind since yesterday, and I have a few thoughts to share:
- the moment I saw it, it came out of nowhere, unexpected and then out of my vision just as quickly.
- I am aware of when you look at a bright light that is slightly off your vision, and then look at a different area and you see a dark spot that 'keeps running away' as you look at it. This was not it. There was no bright source of light I had looked at, and when it disappeared, it completely disappeared. It did not linger as these spots normally do. Also, it was a solid object or atleast looked like one.
- since there were birds flying around, I first assumed it was a bird, but towards the end of seeing it, I just “knew” it was not a bird, something was very off. I get a feeling that it almost pretended to be a natural thing, to pique my interest just as it disappeared. Almost in a playful way.
- I think it’s unidentified to me, and I’m not sure what it is. Unlikely a drone, as it was completely silent, not a flying thing (paper kite, for example, no string attached), not an airplane (too fast to clear my field of view), no effects (smoke trail, turbulence), too steady to be a bird, too quick a speed to be a soaring kind of bird (such as eagles), too long a flight path for a bird to not flap its wings, no change is size so looked like no elevation change, for a bird to descend without flapping, for example.
- I was on Lake Ontario – one of the Great Lakes. It could have been a USO that happened to be airborne at the time.
- the pixelation/ blur bothers me. I can’t quite place it. It looks digital, almost as it the sky was a screen and this thing was an artifact on the screen.
- I cannot quite place the size of it. The surface seemed smooth but the blur did not help define much more. It could have been 100 ft up or 100,000 ft up, I could not confidently tell.
- the rust color looked off, out of place. It was not rusted, but a brown rust color. The rhombus shape threw me off, especially when I realized it was not a bird.
- I have been deep diving into the UFO phenomenon recently, and this is the spooky realization. I recently read that the phenomenon makes itself available to those who actively seek it. I won’t lie, I have more than once wanted to see it with my own eyes.
I’ve attached an my digital representation of what I saw. My phone was on the beach with my other belongings, but even if I had it on me, I could not have reacted quick enough to take a pic or video without risking myself toppling over. It’s almost funny how it showed itself when I really was in a pretty vulnerable position and could not react quickly, but maybe that’s the point.
I wanted to share this experience with everyone here, hope it can be approached with an open mind. I’d love to hear your opinions on this. Did I see a bird and completely misunderstand it? I mostly do not think so. I honestly think this is an unidentified flying object.
The image – https://imgur.com/a/tLiFc5X
by Brandonanddroid