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B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/strange-light-british-columbia-9.7189267
18•empressplay•2h ago

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dnemmers•1h ago
That shape seems to be implied to be a ‘circle’ or ‘sphere’, although I can imagine a Triangle or Square object being equally scary.

“residents, including this CBC reporter, reported seeing a large, white shape slowly move across the horizon before disappearing from view.”

Actually, now it just sounds like they’re talking about a cloud…

sigilis•1h ago
Yeah, but it's a cool looking cloud. I think the cloud in the video was pretty neat.
foxyv•1h ago
So... a lonely cloud just after sunset? This is always the coolest thing to see when the sun under the horizon illuminates things at high altitude. It happens a lot with rocket launches like this:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K_zd8YAUYDY/hqdefault.jpg

carabiner•1h ago
Remember those new jersey drones that were all commercial planes?
estearum•40m ago
I think there actually were drones (even if most reports were aircraft), but that they weren't nefarious (my theory is a commercial LIDAR mapping project) based on the fact that the sitings dropped precipitously when flight restrictions were declared.
sandworm101•39m ago
Sunrise/sunset. Cloud is still in sunlight. Not a ufo. Just an interesting cloud getting a moment in the spotlight.
throwaway27448•35m ago
great, now even our skies have floating garbage patches

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