Saanich (Canada), BC, Canada
THREE DISCS.IN TRIANGULAR FORMATION TRAVELING SW. AT APROX. 30 DEG.HORIZON FASTER THAN PROP.AIRCRAFT.THE DAY WAS CLEAR AND THE TIME WAS
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1944-04-15
- Where
- Saanich (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 min est.
- Geo
- 48.550, -123.369 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-saanich-canada-bc-1944-e7dece
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…
In context
- Saanich (Canada), Canada has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1944 brought 1 reports from Canada.
- The 1940s skewed 27.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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